SaaRthi Mobile App:
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has launched Saa₹thi – a mobile app on investor education.
- ‘R’ represents ‘₹’.
- It aims to create awareness among investors about the basic concepts of the securities market.
- The app will also explain about KYC process, trading and settlement, Mutual Funds (MF), recent market developments, investor grievances redressal mechanism, etc.
- A recent surge is seen in individual investors entering the market, and more importantly a large proportion of trading being mobile phone based.
- According to NSE (National Stock Exchange) data, the share of Individual investors increased to 45% in 2021 from 39% in 2020.
- The NSE is India’s largest financial market.
- Securities are financial instruments issued to raise funds.
- The primary function of the securities markets is to enable the flow of capital from those that have it to those that need it.
- Securities markets provide channels for allocation of savings to investments and thereby decouple these two activities.
- As a result, the savers and investors are not constrained by their individual abilities, but by the economy’s abilities to invest and save respectively, which inevitably enhances savings and investment in the economy.
- Eg. Equity, Debt securities, etc.
