- The Indian stock market lists thousands of stocks from across market caps and sectors. This opens a vast opportunity to investors especially in a fast-growing economy like India’s.

- Investors looking for equity exposure with an attempt to limit the downside, can opt for large cap stocks. These are the top 100 stocks by market cap and include large, established companies that are leaders in their space. They thus have good growth potential as well as enjoy relative stability.

- Selecting and constructing a portfolio from this can be challenging especially for a new or inexperienced investor. Investing through an equity index fund can be considered here.

- Index funds are passively managed mutual funds that seek to replicate an underlying index by investing in the same stocks and in the same proportion as are comprised in the index. This also keeps investing costs low.

- Aditya Birla Sun Life Nifty 50 Index Fund is an open-ended equity-oriented index fund that tracks the headline NIFTY 50 Index. The fund aims to capitalise on the long-term capital growth potential of the leading listed stocks in the market.

- The fund is suited for a long-term investing period.