Employees work at the Zerodha Commodities Pvt. office in Bengaluru, India. (Photographer: Karen Dias/Bloomberg)
(Bloomberg Markets) -- When his parents first learned that Vishal Baveja, a 27-year-old doctor of forensic medicine, had invested some of his savings in Indian equity mutual funds, they were worried about the risk. Those fears abated when they saw the income those investments produced. Then, as the coronavirus pandemic took hold last year, they supported his decision to start buying individual blue-chip stocks.