Kolkata: “If you check the price of equities in the market every day, you will end up raising your blood pressure and achieve little else. Invest for the long term” — Shrinivas Khanolkar, head, digital marketing, Mirae Asset said from the platform of Money9 Financial Freedom Summit 2025 in Mumbai on Wednesday, summing up the spirit of prudent investing in a star-studded evening.
Saurabh Jain, chief marketing officer, Union AMC and Shrinivas Khanolkar, head, digital marketing, Mirae Asset were speaking on “The art of boosting consumer confidence in challenging times”. Both the experts said investors should not panic and try to focus on the long-term. “The market can be bad for the next three-six months but if you repose your trust for four-five-six years, you will make wealth in Indian markets. There will be incidents like Russia-Ukraine war and policies of Donald Trump. But the Indian growth story will keep happening in the next few years. Corrections are good and they level out expectation,” said Jain from Union AMC.
Shield for mutual fund investors
Experts also pointed out that those who have invested in the struck markets through mutual fund schemes have an advantage at times like the current ones when the market is continuously falling. They speak to the analysts and distributors who advise them that corrections like this keep happening and investors should practise patience and try to impress upon them the importance of the long-term view. However, for those who have directly invested in the equity markets, there are no expert views that he/she can easily seek.
Time to enter the markets
They also pointed out that this is the time to enter the markets. Some people entered the market in October but the market fell even from the those levels. But now most of the factors have been discounted and a lot of equities have entered the right valuation zone. “Begin investing with balanced funds, multi-asset funds,” was the unequivocal advice for beginners from Khanolkar.
In fact, a major brokerage has pointed out that six of 11 sectors are oversold based on 14-day RSI (relative strength index, an indicator of whether a stock is undervalued or not).
Incidentally, on Tuesday, March 4, Nifty 50 suffered its longest losing streak in 30 years, a movement triggered by persistent selling of Indian equities by FIIs and investor apprehensions arising from US President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements on major economies. “Equity markets are not like fixed deposits that they will give a constant return. In the past three years, you have got a fantastic return and now they have fallen. If you had invested 3 years ago, it gave you 50% returns. It has given you advance returns. In a falling market you have to find out how much can the market fall from here. We believe these are shot-tern gyrations,” said Jain. His clear advice: “There will be a lot of noise. If you have to create wealth, you will have to eliminate noise.”
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Correction in a stock market is not only inevitable but necessary, said experts at the Money9 Financial Freedom Summit 2025 and they proceeded to underscore that the habit of checking prices of stocks every day might only lead to higher blood pressure and nothing else. They said that long-term investment is the call of the hour. Markets Business News – Personal Finance News, Share Market News, BSE/NSE News, Stock Exchange News Today
