Equity markets have corrected since their highs in October 2021, and investors have witnessed periods of heightened volatility induced by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, red-hot inflation, rising interest rates and monetary tightening.

When Nifty50 makes investors jittery about the course of the market, Rajesh Cheruvu, chief investment officer at Validus Wealth, favours equities as an asset class. Validus Wealth manages assets worth $1 billion.

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There’s no respite from volatility for the equity markets, at least for the next few weeks, thanks to the sustained selling by foreign institutional investors, mounting inflationary pressure, liquidity control moves by central banks and supply chain disruptions.