Gupta: India's low-cost ETF market grew from 2% to nearly 6%
Deepak Gupta · Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups · May 11, 2020 · at 12:20
Deepak Gupta of WEH Ventures outlines the growth of low-cost passive investing adoption in India as part of his thesis for investing in smallcase.
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“At that point also it was a very high percentage, but in India it was only two percent. People were not aware of low cost passive investing. That market has now grown from two percent to almost six percent.”
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