Investor Education And Protection Fund

Speaking at the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit 2026, panellists said investor education must explain why beating market benchmarks consistently is difficult, beyond costs and tracking error

Investor Protection Fund balance rose to Rs 965 crore in FY26, while higher investment income boosted the corpus despite investor education spending remaining unchanged

The task force reviewing existing norms is expected to release draft proposal in September

One of the big challenges the authority currently faces is the lack of manpower which often slows down its grievance redressal mechanism

The stock exchanges should aggregate data on unclaimed shares and dividends from all listed companies, and provide it on their websites with easy-to-use search functionality

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday announced the launch of a digital learning platform for investor education

The panel is mandated to recommend investor education and protection activities that may be undertaken directly by the market regulator or any other agency for utilisation of IPEF

IEPF's new status as a leading shareholder of India Inc is due to a rule which has become operational recently by which investors, who don't claim dividends, have their shares transferred to the IEPF