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Taking the stock market to the masses

Mutual funds and brokerage accounts are relatively expensive for ordinary Indians. The NPS can help.

Taking the stock market to the masses

After hitting a COVID-19-induced low in March 2021, the Nifty 50 has doubled, driven both by foreign flows (FPI inflows into the Indian stock market amounted to $14 billion over FY20-21)1 and domestic inflows (amounting to $25 billion over FY20-21)2. The sustained vigour of this bull-run has attracted millions of new investors into the Indian stock market - as per SEBI, 14.2 million new investors have entered the stock market over the past 12 months3. In fact, prior to COVID's onset in March 2020, there were about 11 million active investors in India; over the past 18 months, this number has more than doubled to about 25 million active investors.


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