Opening a new demat account is the essential initial step for anyone in the country aspiring to invest or trade in equities, mutual funds or other securities. Zerodha, one of India’s largest and most ...

I had an offline demat account where I held all my investments and an online account for all my trades. This was a way to avoid the temptation of ‘trading’ my investments,” Kamath wrote.

In India, any investors who want to own securities like stocks, bonds and mutual funds must open a demat account. Demat is short for dematerialised—demat accounts are electronic records tracking your ...

Zerodha founder and CEO Nithin Kamath has revealed how maintaining a secondary demat account acted as a behavioural hack, helping him avoid impulse trading and achieve better long-term returns. His ...