Close to 67% investors fail to beat benchmarks: Survey

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The survey was conducted across 10 major cities, among 2,000 investors and traders in the age group of 24-45..

Other findings include that 65% investors were not even aware of their exact returns...

A report on the capital markets by Nielsen for SAMCO Securities has found that 67% of market participants failed to beat the benchmark returns..

It has recommended turning to a professional fund manager if they are unable to manage it actively, or invest in index ETFs tracking relevant benchmarks to ensure one is aligned with the overall market performance...

The firm has launched the Capital Resource Planning (CRP) platform on the web and as an app to enable investors to create their own personal index that could help them keep track of returns in real time and benchmark them against broader market indices as well as against leading active fund managers...