If someone is afraid of keeping shares in demat account then following precautions can be taken:
Avoid carrying huge portfolio in demat account which is with your broker and is connected with your on-line trading. Normally brokers are good and safe but still some talks are making the round that shares vanish from the demat account then keep only bare minimum in the demat which is linked with on-line trading and shift the balance to a demat account with a nationalised bank without having online transaction facility. This will be safer and every month they will send you an account statement which you can verify. In such accounts any selling and transfer is thru a transaction slip -- a paper slip. This is normally very safe.
So keep all your long term investment shares in a separate account away from broker.
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Avoid carrying huge portfolio in demat account which is with your broker and is connected with your on-line trading. Normally brokers are good and safe but still some talks are making the round that shares vanish from the demat account then keep only bare minimum in the demat which is linked with on-line trading and shift the balance to a demat account with a nationalised bank without having online transaction facility. This will be safer and every month they will send you an account statement which you can verify. In such accounts any selling and transfer is thru a transaction slip -- a paper slip. This is normally very safe.
So keep all your long term investment shares in a separate account away from broker.
Bee