Equity investments usually entail volatility in price and require analytical effort not only to make a good investment but also to track it thereafter. So much so that equity has become synonymous with high risk and high effort.

This need not be the case. Index funds solve the dual problem of high risk and effort for investors so that they can easily make low risk investment at lower cost. Let us see how.

Read the full article published originally on Financial Express: Index funds: A low-cost, low-risk investment