'The small-cap story remains strong and the best equity class globally'

SHANKAR SHARMA, tells that investors should ignore all the noise around elections, policies of global central banks, global macros, etc

Entering into the new year, SHANKAR SHARMA, vice chairman and joint managing director at First Global tells Puneet Wadhwa that investors should ignore all the noise around elections, policies of global central banks, global macros, etc and spend some time researching stocks before and do bottom-up stock picking.
  
What is your market outlook for 2018? Can India outperform its emerging market (EM) peers in 2018?
 
Indian large-caps, as represented by Nifty50 index, have been mostly flat relatively or underperformed the rest of the world. While in absolute terms we may say that the Indian markets have done well,