Tyagi bats for safeguarding retail buyers

The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), Ajay Tyagi on Wednesday mentioned the retail investor participation within the capital market has elevated considerably with the variety of new demat accounts growing from 4 lakh per thirty days in 2019-20 to 29 lakh per thirty days in November 2021 and the regulator and market infrastructure establishments ought to be certain that these buyers preserve belief within the capital markets.
“Increased buyers participation in home markets is a particularly encouraging signal for the expansion of capital markets in India. It is for the regulator and the market infrastructure establishments, market intermediaries and different stakeholders to make sure the buyers preserve belief and religion out there.
“The investors on their part need to take an informed decisions based on their risk appetite especially in case of derivative. It is very critical to apprise the investors how these products can be used to hedge their risk and the risk involved in taking speculative positions so that they do not get their fingers burnt and disappointed from the capital market,” mentioned Tyagi who was talking at an occasion organised by NSE celebrating 25 years of its Nifty 50 index and 20 years of derivatives buying and selling.

Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, who additionally spoke on the occasion, mentioned capital markets ought to transfer in the direction of creation of a single window for “doing know-your-customer (KYC) for stockbrokers, mutual funds, financial intermediaries, banking and other stakeholders”.
Goyal mentioned the inventory exchanges ought to put in place a really sturdy system to keep up “the highest level of integrity and transparency which will encourage Indians to invest in the stock markets and empower households to look at better returns through investment in bourses”.