IST, the barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex, shed 175.81 points or 0.21% to 82,551.83. The Nifty 50 index shed 34.95 points or 0.14% to 25,185.50.

At its core, a mutual fund is a collective investment vehicle. It pools money from several investors retail or institutional and invests this aggregated corpus into a diversified portfolio of ...