How to Read Quarterly Results
What to look at in a results announcement, why the year-on-year comparison beats the sequential one, and how to tell a one-off from a trend.
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How to Choose a Mutual Fund
Direct versus regular plans, what the expense ratio actually costs over decades, and why past returns are the least reliable thing on the factsheet.
Capital Gains Tax on Shares in India
The mechanics that do not change with each Budget: holding periods, how a gain is computed, set-off and carry-forward of losses, and where rates must be checked.
What Is a Demat Account?
Demat and trading accounts are held by different parties. Where your shares really sit, what a broker can and cannot do, and what happens if one shuts down.
Delisting of Shares in India
Voluntary and compulsory delisting work very differently for a shareholder: how the exit price is set, what happens if you miss it, and why suspension is a trap.
How to Read an Annual Report
The financial statements have three articles of their own. This one covers the rest of the document - the auditor, the notes, related parties, and a reading order.
Large Cap, Mid Cap and Small Cap Explained
The categories are defined by rank rather than by size, which has consequences most people never notice - and the label is really a statement about liquidity.
Circuit Limits, ASM and GSM
Price bands, what a locked circuit actually means for an exit, and how the surveillance framework changes the rules on a stock without the company doing anything.
How to Verify a SEBI Registration
What each category of registration permits, how to check a number against the public register, and where advice ends and distribution begins.
IPO Investing in India
How the retail allotment lottery works, why oversubscription cuts both ways, what listing gains compensate for, and the questions the prospectus answers.
What a Trade Actually Costs in India
Brokerage is the smallest line for most retail investors. Here is the full stack of stock market charges, which ones scale with size, and where the real cost hides.
Inflation and Real Returns
A nine percent return during seven percent inflation is a two percent return. How to compute what you actually earned, and why tax widens the gap.