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Stock Market Crash: What should investors do when portfolios are deep in the red?

A lot can happen in six months. Until September last year, Indian equities were making new records almost every single day. However, since then, there has been a one way fall across indices, regardless of market capitalisation.The Nifty 50 index is down 16% from its peak post Friday's steep sell-off. The broader markets have had it worse with the Midcap index declining over 22%, and the Smallcap index having shed over 25% from its peak in December last year. That would have made a serious dent to portfolios of investors.The...