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All Brokers debit DP AMC Charges annually as per the scheme selected by client at the time of account opening. Same is recovered from trading account ledger. May be you can speak to your sales executive or their customer care and get the details. You could change your DP scheme too if possible.

Absolutely wrong! I am using Motilal Oswal platform. Motilal Oswal’s research is very good, and their calls are well researched. They do provide bracket order called MarginPlus and they also provide Spread Order as per exchange guidelines. Brokerage might not be the cheapest, but they are worth...

Rules designed to protect the Indian investor are paradoxically destroying investor sentiment. For 18 months, Nilesh Shah, Managing Director and CEO at Axis Direct, has been struggling to open a reimbursement bank account for his maid in Axis Bank. The maid also attends college and Shah has...

Financials, CG & auto stocks see biggest rise in exposure Foreign portfolio investors’ (FPIs) raised their exposure to Indian equities largely in six sectors — banking and financials, capital goods, metals and mining, utilities, automobile and oil & gas — in the first month since the election...

Minimum public holding in PSUs set at 25% Capital market regulator Securities Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Thursday recommended a slew of measures to boost the primary market segment, increase retail participation in offer for sales (OFS), and make regulatory requirements for public...

Realty, power and capital goods stocks rallied on Tuesday on the central bank’s dovish money policy stance, lifting benchmarks Sensex and Nifty at new record highs. Metal stocks got a boost from good factory output data in China. Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan toned down his...

Why equity exchange-traded funds attract few investors in India. Mukesh Chothani, a mutual fund distributor at Nashik in Maharashtra, says he rarely recommends equity-oriented exchangetraded funds (ETFs) to clients. The reason is simple - he doesn't benefit much from recommending ETFs...

Arup Roy Choudhury is used to constant battles. The chairman and managing director of the Rs 73,904-crore public sector undertaking (PSU) NTPC Ltd, India's largest producer of electricity, spends a fair bit of his time scrapping with bankrupt state electricity boards (SEBs) that owe a staggering...

Foreign portfolio investors, or FPIs, the largest investors in Indian stocks, who largely cover their currency risk in overseas markets, will now be able to hedge their risk of a falling dollar in currency derivatives segment of stock exchanges such as NSE, BSE and MCX-SX. A year-old proposal...

Ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party has been declared a winner in the Lok Sabha elections, equity markets have been scaling newer highs on hope that the new government under the Prime Minister in waiting, Narendra Modi, would put the economy back on the growth path. The BSE Sensex hit an...

India Inc has a loud and clear massage for Narendra Modi, the PM-designate: instill business confidence and revive growth though tough policy decisions to herald a "golden era of change". Most industry leader's that TOI spoke to believe that this decisive victory is enough to give Modi a free...

10 top brokerages and research houses interpret the outcome of exit polls and suggest investing strategies Exit poll released post market hours on Monday points to the formation of a Narendra Modi–led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the centre. The markets have already seen a...

Sensex gains 2.4%, Nifty crosses 7,000; investors feel exit polls have vindicated their stand The exit polls have validated Dalal Street's stand that the National Democratic Alliance will get a clear majority and stocks could continue with their uptrend, leading market players say. The...

In line with an extremely strong momentum in the stock market, as many as 189 stocks hit their 52-week highs on Monday on the BSE. Axis Bank, Coal India, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, JSW Steel, L&T, Maruti Suzuki, RIL and Tata Motors were among the stocks that hit their one-year highs. Stock...

Even after rallying over 13 per cent so far in the year 2014, most analysts on the Street expect the euphoric rise on the S&P BSE Sensex to continue for the rest of the year as well, cemented by hopes of a stable and reform-oriented government at the Centre. The S&P BSE Sensex has already...

For the week, the Sensex surged 590 points, while the Nifty rose 164 points The benchmark Nifty and the Sensex rallied 2.4-2.6 per cent through the week on hopes of a revival in the economy amid a regime change at the Centre. The market remained exuberant over prospects of a Bharatiya Janata...

India’s largest home finance company HDFC reported a 11 per cent rise in net profit to Rs 1,723.10 crore at the end of the fourth quarter driven by growth in retail home loans and profit from the sale of investments. HDFC’s board of directors at its meeting held on Tuesday recommended dividend...

Essar Steel, part of the diversified Essar Group, hopes to be profitable by 2014-15 as the company is in the process of ramping up its capacity to seven million tonnes. The company is producing around five million tonnes of steel in Hazira and plans to ramp up its capacity to seven million...

At best, buy a coin or two, as the metal isn't expected to see a sharp rise in the coming year The sheen has been off gold for some time. And, retail investors will do well not to buy the commodity aggressively on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya this Friday. Indian gold prices have risen...

Prolonging last session’s weakness, Indian equity markets further moving away from their record highs, witnessed drubbing and settled lower with a cut of over quarter of a percent on relentless selling by market-participants. Lack of positive triggers, which could lift the markets high combined...