Help | Are ETFs better or Index funds?

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1. Working in consumer finance.
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In my last 5 years of investing in MF, only hdfc top 100 fund has outperformed index. The return of other mutual fund miss the index by 0.5-1%. Though this is not big, paying expense ratio and still underperforming makes less sense to me...

Every time we see people asking recommendations related to stocks/MFs. I am not seeing people exploring ETFs in India. Somehow, I feel fund houses make more margins in MFs against ETFs and hence they promote more MFs. Also, lots of regul...