In the world of investments, risk and performance are interdependent. Hence, to know the desirability of a stock, we need to understand and study the risk involved. The Smeipo Indices provide us with the benefit of studying the market stocks over a period of time to analyse the performance and risk associated with it. Stock market indices capture the behaviour of the overall Equity market.
All stock prices move for two sole reasons - news about company (closure of factory, product launch and such) or national news (weather, nuclear bombs, budget announcement and more). The indices capture the movements as per these two parameters through averaging. Indices are a source of information through which we can see how the market is faring. Nowadays, indices are all used for index funds and index derivatives. Index funds are those funds passively invest in the index while index derivatives allow altering risk exposure to an index (hedging) and implement forecasts and index movement (speculation). Lastly, indices are a benchmark for performance by fund managers. All equity funds beget returns like the overall index and a 50:50 debt:equity fund begets returns on 50% investment & 50% fixed income.
The Smeipo indices are benchmark indices that list Smeipo of the biggest companies listed in the NSE out of the total number - 1600 companies that are registered.