For much of the last decade, Indian retail investors have been conditioned to focus on one number above all others: returns. Mutual fund advertisements flash past performance. WhatsApp groups celebrate multibagger tips. Portfolio trackers highlight winners in green and hide the losers.

If you've been tracking the markets as closely as most advisors do, 2025 stands out as something far more significant than just another profitable year on Dalal Street. It was the year that fundamentally rewrote the rules of India's equity market—the year when the baton passed from foreign to domestic hands.

For long-term investors, India's relative insulation from global trade conflicts offers potential stability during this trade tariff war.

The world around us is shifting beneath our feet; we don't know where we're heading. We are reminded of the Trade Wars of the 1930s.

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