In early March, the Securities and Exchange Board of India asked mutual funds to conduct a “stress test” for small and mid-cap schemes and publish the results in simple language. The idea was to enable the investor to understand the risk associated with investing in such stocks. But as Deshashis Basu points out, there are fundamental problems with the concept of the stress test. He outlines the four faultlines. Read it here
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