The sad reality of financial services is that good financial products like term insurance are sold the least, and horrible products like endowment policies and ULIPs are sold the most. There’s an old saying, “there’s no product a high commission can’t sell.” The one or two stories of mis-selling out of the hundreds that get […]
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Like we’ve alluded to multiple times in the past, without a vibrant advisory ecosystem of advisors and distributors, there’s only so much the Indian markets can grow. Sure, the investor base has grown quite a bit in the last couple of years. But if the markets have to continue growing, we’ll need lakhs of advisors […]
The financial media tells me that the US Federal Reserve and the RBI will soon raise interest rates because inflation is out of control. If inflation is hot, interest rates rise, and the Fed stops printing money, liquidity will dry up, and the markets will apparently crash between 50-80%. According to the “experts”, the target […]
It doesn’t feel like the end of 2021, but rather a long 2020 just ended. I was thinking of writing about a year-end personal finance checklist, but then I realized 2021 deserves a different kind of review given what we’ve lived through. For the last couple of years, we’ve all been a bit like a […]
If you ignore the brutal bear market over the last one month, we’re still in a raging bull market. A lot of people think that the markets are in a bubble. I don’t know. I guess nobody knows. Talk of bubbles always reminds me of this tongue in cheek quote by Eddy Elfenbein: A bubble […]
Here’s the trading/stock market holiday calendar for 2022 for equity and F&O segments. Holiday Date Day Republic Day January 26, 2022 Wednesday Mahashivratri March 01, 2022 Tuesday Holi March 18, 2022 Friday Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Jayanti/ Mahavir Jayanti April 14, 2022 Thursday Good Friday April 15, 2022 Friday Eid-Ul-Fitr (Ramzan ID) May 03, […]
Since day 1 of Zerodha, we’ve always tried to share as much as possible and educate people about the markets. Today, our initiatives like Varsity, Z-Connect and Tradingqna are some of the most visited sites both in India and across the world. Though we don’t really have an ed-tech focus at Rainmatter, we partnered with […]
Wishing you all a Happy and prosperous Diwali🪔 from all of us here at team Zerodha! This post got a little big because we wanted to cover some basic yet extremely important personal finance concepts. This was the first post that we wanted to write but there was so much other crazy stuff happening in […]
There’s nothing new that you can say about investing. The basics – save more, spend less, diversify, keep costs low, and don’t tinker with your portfolio have remained the same for ages. It’s just that we have to find new ways to keep saying the same old things. And since most of you are probably […]
India is the second-largest consumer of gold in the world after China. Gold holds a lot of cultural significance for Indians. The average Indian household has over 11% of its wealth in gold and it’s the second biggest asset among households after real estate. Gold and real estate combined account for 80-95% of Indian household […]
In September 2020, SEBI notified the new changes to the Registered Investment Advisers (RIA) guidelines. There were a few big and important changes in the new guidelines: Segregation of advisory and distribution at a client level Mandatory agreement between advisers and clients before any advice was given Capping of fees at 2.5% for AUM based […]
Hindi: इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। In May 2020, the depositories introduced a new process for clients to authorise the debit of securities from their demat accounts against a delivery sale transaction by entering a TPIN. The new process made a physical Power of Attorney for the demat account, […]
Prateek: Hi दोस्तों, मैं Prateek Singh, CEO और LearnApp का संस्थापक, एक वीडियो शिक्षा मंच। और मैंने पिछले दस वर्षों में पर्सनली Zerodha को ग्रो होते देखा है। और मुझे Zerodha के कई फर्स्ट-टाइम अकाउंट होल्डर्स के बारे में पता है, और यहां तक कि LearnApp यूज़र्स Zerodha की यात्रा के बारे में भी जानना […]
हम सभी ऐसी परिस्थितियों में रहे हैं जहाँ हमने किसी अवसर के लिए सही उपहार की खोज में कई घंटे बिताए हैं। एक अच्छा उपहार चुनना कभी आसान नहीं होता है। लंबे समय से हम ज़ेरोधा में जो काम करना चाहते थे, उनमें से एक था शेयर, म्युचुअल फंड और बॉन्ड को आसानी से गिफ़्ट […]
SEBI released a circular on June 5, 2020, announcing a regulatory sandbox to allow fintech companies to experiment and test their products in a live environment with some flexibility afforded with respect to regulations. This circular follows the one published by SEBI in May 2019 introducing an “Innovation Sandbox” for fintechs to try out products […]
We have been working tirelessly over the past year to bring to you the best trading and investment experience. While we have posted regular updates on what we have been doing at Zerodha, we thought it would be a good idea to give you an update on all the latest goings-on at our partner platforms […]
Update [September 2018]- UPI will continue to remain free till December 2018. Traders, Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is an instant payment system developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), an RBI regulated entity. UPI is built over the IMPS infrastructure and allows you to instantly transfer money between any two parties’ bank accounts. The number […]
Hello Traders, The list of trading holidays for the calendar year 2018 has been announced by NSE. Here’s a one-page list of all trading holidays for NSE & BSE. Holiday Date Day Republic Day January 26, 2018 Friday Mahashivratri February 13, 2018 Tuesday Holi March 02, 2018 Friday Mahavir Jayanti March 29, 2018 Thursday Good […]
Traders, We keep getting queries on quarterly settlements, hence the detailed explanation below. What is Quarterly Settlement of Funds & Securities? Back in 2009, the market regulator, SEBI, introduced the policy of Quarterly Settlement of Funds & Securities. According to the policy, brokerage firms are required to transfer back all unutilized sums of money kept […]
Traders, Updated 21th Sep 2016 We have the latest release of Pi (version 1.0.0.6 7/18/2016) available for update directly from Pi if you click on Help > Check for Updates. If you are installing for the first time, download the Pi installation file from here. Here are some of the latest features: Multiple marketwatches Create a new marketwatch […]