List of Demat Account Articles

With the returns from some investment products tapering in the last few years, equity has become a popular option with investors.You can have numerous Demat accounts in India.

The concept of Basic Services Demat Account (BSDA) was introduced by SEBI in 2012. The idea was to reduce the burden of demat charges on investors with a small portfolios below a threshold of Rs2 lakhs. Demat accounts entail a plethora of charges.

As a budding trader, you have already opened your Demat account with the depository investor, i.e., DP. You may start trading in just some stocks at first. But when your trading skills enhance, there are chances that you will extend the trading and invest in different shares. So, if you wish to begin your stock market investments by investing in securities, a CDSL Demat account […]

Listed shares can be expensive, which makes it difficult for investors to increase their holdings. On the other hand, bonus shares provide an alternative by boosting a person's ownership position in the business without adding to expenses.

You are on your favourite trading app (like IIFL), and you’re watching happily as the stock you bought some time ago has risen to reach your target profitable price.

Share market investing in the bygone days involved a lot of paperwork. It was complicated and cumbersome until dematerialisation of shares made buying, selling, and holding shares effortless.

It is not possible to have joint trading accounts. But a joint demat account is allowed. This joint demat account can have 1 primary account holder and up to 2 joint account holders.

A dematerialized account, otherwise known as a ‘Demat Account’ where you can keep digital forms of all your securities traded on the stock market such as commodities, ETFs, etc. You cannot trade in the Indian stock market without having a Demat account. In India, two primary depositories hold your Demat account: the National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL), and Central Depository Services Limited (CDSL).

If an investor is holding physical share certificates, then as per the SEBI Regulations these shares have to be dematerialized before they can be sold. Since more than 99% of the shareholdings are in demat mode, it makes sense to convert your physical certificates, if any, into electronic credits in demat account.

The Conversion of Demat account to basic service Demat account can reduce the overall cost of the investment. Read on to learn how to convert a Demat Account to BSDA.

If you were to ask, ‘How to start investing?’ the answer would be, “Open a Demat account’. As the investing spectrum in India has entirely converted into the digital space, a Demat account has become vital for anyone who wants to become an investor and invest in the stock market.

Paper-strewn floors and traders frantically monitoring the trading screens at a stock exchange is probably the first image that comes to our mind when we think about the word ‘market’. But with the advent of electronic trading, traders are no more burdened with physical, paper stock certificates to trade.

1991 witnessed the liberalisation of the Indian economy. Post this, SEBI was established by the Indian Government as the regulator for securities markets in the year 1992. Soon after that, SEBI started bringing reforms in the securities sector. Economic reforms started getting passed to accomplish specific goals, such as the growth of capital and personal inflows, modernisation, and the introduction of a free-market economy. The […]

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Know here about Account Maintenance Charges in a Demat account and other types of account charges. Click here to read more on annual maintenance charges at India Infoline.