New Delhi, May 15 -- Stock markets have characteristically been volatile in the past few days. After delivering the best session of four years on Monday by rising 3.7 percent, Sensex dropped 1.6 percent on Tuesday.

In thelast two sessions of the previous week, Indian marketslost $83 billion in market cap on the India Pakistan conflict followingOperation Sindoor. This decline and risefollowed by another fall has left retail investors spooked and gobsmacked.

Experts, therefore, recommendretail investors to contemplate passive investing. One way to follow passive investing is to invest in index mutual funds. For the uninitiated,index funds invest in those securities, which constitute popular indices such as Nifty50, Sensex30, Nifty100 -- t...