Year: 2025

Why you still need to dematerialise physical sharesThe Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has tightened physical shareholding. Physical sale of shares is prohibited with effect from October 1, 2023. But from January 2024 onwards, even transmission (in the case of legal heirs), name deletion and duplicate requests need demat conversion. If you still… Continue reading Still holding paper shares? Here’s how to convert them to demat

The Securities and Exchange Board of India has extended the listing deadline for the National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) to August 14, 2025. In a disclosure, NSDL said that the SEBI has granted an extension to the company for in-principle approval for the listing of its equity shares on the stock exchange till August 14.… Continue reading Motilal Oswal Alternates raises Rs 2,000 cr through sixth real estate fund

India’s mutual fund landscape, long dominated by urban-centric players and male leadership, is getting a shake-up from Bharat and by a woman. Madhu Lunawat, the country’s first woman founder of a mutual fund, is steering The Wealth Company Asset Management towards the hinterland, betting that the next wave of India’s investing class will rise from… Continue reading India’s first woman AMC founder wants to build a mutual fund empire from Tier-2 India

The capital gain tax rule for various categories of mutual funds has been updated in FY 2024-25. The new capital gain tax rules for mutual funds will stay in effect till they are changed again by the government. ET Wealth online spoke with Naveen Wadhwa, Vice-President of Research & Advisory at Taxmann.com, to understand the… Continue reading Mutual fund taxation for AY 2025-26: Latest capital gain tax rules for equity mutual funds, debt mutual funds, international mutual funds, gold mutual funds, others