{"id":1644,"date":"2019-05-07T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:53:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:23:51","slug":"retail-investors-in-markets-has-increased-in-last-5-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equentis.com\/blog\/retail-investors-in-markets-has-increased-in-last-5-year\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Participation of Retail Investors In Equity Markets of India Has Increased in Last 5 Years?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Few decades back if you had started your career or started earning, equity market in India would probably be your least preferred choice of investment. Most likely it would be centred around traditional investment options like Public Provident Fund, Post-office fixed savings schemes, LIC policies, Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) or bank fixed deposits. Because that is advice what you would have probably received from your elders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traditionally Indians have been averse to saving in the equity market in India and preferred instruments such as gold, real estate and bank deposits. Some of the reasons for this could be attributed to lack of transparency in the equity market in India prior to the commencement of electronic trading when shares were traded in paper and fear on the part of investors due to various scams in 90s such as the Harshad Mehta scam<\/a> and the Ketan Parekh scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On one side while stocks of companies like Reliance, Maruti, Eicher Motors<\/a>, Wipro<\/a>, Infosys and TCS have created huge wealth for long term investors, the number of investors who made losses by investing in fundamentally weak companies like Suzlon<\/a>, Reliance Communications, Essar Steel, Kingfisher Airlines, Alok Industries, GTL Infrastructure, Birla Power Solutions etc. is substantially high. According to estimates the percentage of investors who lose wealth in the equity market in India could be as high as 90%. Horror stories of wealth destruction of these investors who lost money in the market have been a big deterrent for new investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t

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