Better Returns: Investment in equities is a direct investment in a company’s business. A well established profit making business has the potential to earn higher returns for its shareholders compared to other investment options like fixed income investments.
Beat Inflation: Equity investments over the long term have historically delivered returns to beat inflation and create wealth for investors. A portion of your portfolio allocated in equity adds the high growth potential to your overall investment basket.
SEBI Regulation: Equity markets are well regulated by SEBI thus ensuring foolproof processes, fraud protection and timely stock and fund movement. You need to have a demat account and trading account with a SEBI approved broker for any equity investment.
Small Corpus: You can start investing in equity markets even with a very small amount, there is no large upfront corpus needed.
Liquidity & Instant Payouts: You have quick access to your money and shares, the funds are credited to your account within the tie stipulated by SEBI. You have full access to funds and shares to sell at all times.
Loan against shares: You can avail a loan against your share holdings in your demat account through financial institutions by pledging shares as collateral. AsthaTrade offers zero cash margin funding against shares in your demat.
Margin Funding: In case you do not have adequate cash to invest yet you want to take advantage of a market opportunity, you can avail margin funding MTF or Pay Later from a broker. AsthaTrade offers MTF up to 4x margin funding at an attractive interest rate of 3.99% p.a.