Last Reviewed and Updated: 17 Aug 2026 Silver ETFs are a recent addition to the Indian market. Nippon India Silver ETF, the oldest in the category, launched in January 2022, with Axis Silver ETF following in September 2022 and Kotak Silver ETF in December 2022. SBI Silver ETF arrived considerably later, launched in July 2024, and has still grown quickly despite the late start. As of 2026, India has more than 9 silver ETFs available, a genuinely young category compared to gold

Last Reviewed and Updated: 17 Aug 2026 Two Indices Built From Almost The Same Pool Of Companies The Nifty 50 tracks 50 of the largest, most liquid companies listed on the NSE, together representing roughly 57% of the total market capitalisation of all NSE listed stocks. The Sensex tracks 30 large cap companies listed on the BSE. The overlap between the two is substantial: most Sensex constituents also sit inside the Nifty 50, since both indices are drawing from essentially th

Last Reviewed and Updated: 17 Aug 2026 Yes, It Is Possible, But It Is Not The Same Kind Of SIP A mutual fund SIP is a facility the AMC itself offers directly. An ETF SIP is not, since ETFs trade on an exchange rather than being bought directly from a fund house. Instead, it is a feature your stockbroker offers, structured as a recurring Stock SIP or Basket SIP instruction: you choose the ETF, the amount, and the frequency, and on each scheduled date your broker automatically

Last Reviewed and Updated: 17 Aug 2026 Why The Cheapest Category Keeps Getting Cheaper Broad market index ETFs, tracking the Nifty 50 or the Sensex, have gone through a genuine, sustained wave of fee competition. Nippon India and ICICI Prudential were among the earlier movers on cutting expense ratios for their Nifty 50 and Sensex offerings, with UTI and SBI following, and other AMCs subsequently extending similar cuts across their broader passive lineups, including Nifty Nex

Last Reviewed and Updated: 17 Aug 2026 Total assets across India's ETF industry crossed Rs 10 lakh crore during 2025, a scale that has continued growing through 2026 as commodity ETFs specifically, covered in our earlier articles on gold and silver, have pulled in record inflows alongside the more established broad market equity funds. The Largest By Category Category Example Approximate Scale Broad equity index SBI ETF Nifty 50 AUM exceeding Rs 2 lakh crore Silver Nippon Ind

Last Reviewed and Updated: 17 Aug 2026 Three Routes, Not One Getting exposure to the Nasdaq 100 or the S&P 500 from India runs through three genuinely different structures, each with its own cost, currency handling, and tax treatment. Route How It Works Uses Your LRS Quota An Indian domiciled international ETF Listed on NSE, bought like any Indian ETF, in rupees, no foreign account needed No An Indian mutual fund or Fund of Funds A domestic scheme invests in US ETFs on your b

Last Reviewed and Updated: 17 Aug 2026 A broad market ETF, tracking the Nifty 50 or Nifty 500, spreads risk across dozens or hundreds of companies in many industries. A sectoral ETF deliberately gives that up, concentrating entirely in one industry's stocks to let an investor make a specific, targeted bet rather than a broad one. The general mechanics of buying, checking liquidity, and reading tracking error, covered in earlier articles in this series, apply the same way to a

Last Reviewed and Updated: 17 Aug 2026 Every mutual fund makes one basic choice: try to beat a benchmark index through a manager's stock picking, or simply replicate that index as closely as possible. The first path is active management. The second is passive management, and passive management itself comes in two structural forms in India, an index fund, a conventional mutual fund that happens to track an index, and an ETF, a fund that also tracks an index but trades on a sto