Navigating Market Volatility With ETFs

In a recent discussion with Outlook Money, Chintan Haria – head – product development and strategy, ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund, and Abhishek Mehrotra, head of investment products, HDFC Securities, spoke about the ways in which investors can navigate market volatility with exchange-traded funds (ETFs). They were in discussion with Kundan Kishore, deputy editor, Outlook Money.Here are some edited excerpts from the discussion. The Market Movement For long, the interest rate was kept low, but now they are rising. That said, the rising interest rates won’t have much of an impact in India, and the inflation is also under control. Chintan: “There is going to be volatility for the next one or two years. The good part is that there won’t be that much of an impact in India, because we never had low interest rates or nil interest rates, and inflation in India is...