All of the shares and other securities that you purchase are held in an electronic form in an account known as the demat account. And without this demat account, you cannot buy or sell shares in the stock exchanges.
Since this is an electronic account, all of the transactions that you make – both debits and credits – are recorded in your demat account holding statement. That’s not all. All of your holdings, which are basically the investments that you’ve made and possess in your account currently, are also recorded in the said statement.
At any point in time, you can view this information and download a copy of the details for your personal purposes. Wondering how to do that? Here’s some in-depth information on what the demat account holding statement is and how you can download the same easily to view the details related to your account.
As you’ve already been introduced to before, the demat account holding statement is a detailed record of all of the securities that you currently possess in your account. This statement includes information such as the number of shares or units of securities that you possess, the current market value per share or per unit, the total value of the investments in your account, and the NAV of mutual fund units, among other things.
The demat account holding statement, when downloaded in the form of a Consolidated Account Statement (CAS), contains a host of information. In addition to the information mentioned in the previous section, the CAS consists of the below mentioned information as well.
This section of the Consolidated Account Statement consists of all the shares and other securities that you’ve bought and sold during the period of time to which the statement pertains. All of the purchases appear in the statement as credits, whereas all of the shares and other securities that you’ve sold would appear in the statement as debits.
The statement also consists of information like the number of shares or units purchased, the date and time of purchase, and the price per unit at which they were purchased, among other details.
The statement of holdings section of the Consolidated Account Statement consists of all of the details of the shares and other securities that are currently present in your demat account. This statement is further subdivided into multiple categories of information. Here’s a quick look at these categories.
This denotes the total balance of shares and other securities that your demat account currently has. It includes free balance, locked-in balance, and pledge balance. Not sure what these terms mean? We’ve explained them below.
This denotes the balance of shares and other securities that are freely available for trading. Any sale of securities that you make will be debited from the free balance.
As the name itself signifies, the locked-in balance signifies the balance of shares and other securities that are currently locked from trading. Until the lock on these securities is removed, you cannot sell any of them on the stock exchanges.
This denotes the balance of shares and other securities that are currently pledged with the stock broker. Until the pledge is removed by way of repaying the loan or margin that you may have from the stock broker, the pledge balance will not be made available for trading.
Now that you know what a demat account holding statement is, let’s take a look at the different ways through which you can view and download it.
One of the easiest ways through which you can view and download your demat account holding statement is via your trading account. When you open a demat account with a stock broker, it is almost always automatically linked to a trading account. And as such, you can view a whole host of demat account related information directly on your trading account itself.
To do this, all that you have to do is log into your trading account via the user credentials given to you. Once you’re logged in, search for and navigate to your demat account section or your holdings section, depending on your stock broker’s platform. Here, you can view and download your demat account holding statement for any period that you wish.
Another quick and easy way to download your demat account holding statement is by logging into your demat account. A major advantage that you get to enjoy by choosing this method has to do with the fact that you can gain access to the Consolidated Account Statement (CAS). The CAS consists of information from all of the demat accounts you possess with a depository, making your job a whole lot easier.
The process that you would have to follow to log into your demat account varies according to the depository with whom you have your account. So, here’s the step-by-step process that you would have to follow for CDSL and NSDL accounts.
Here’s what you would have to do to view the Consolidated Account Statement on CDSL.
If your demat account is with NSDL, the process that you would have to follow to download the demat account holding statement is as follows –
Once you’ve managed to download the demat account holding statement, ensure that you read through it thoroughly. While you’re at it, remember to check whether your personal details, folio number, dividend payouts, investments, and transactional information are in order. If anything seems out of the ordinary or if you witness any discrepancies or mistakes, make sure to bring it to the notice of the concerned authorities right away.
Yes. There are two different ways to download the holdings statement - by logging into your trading account or by logging into your demat account.
Yes. To view and download your demat account holding statement, you will have to log into the account using your credentials.
Yes. The holding statement will also specify the date at which you bought the said securities from the exchanges.
Since your demat account and your trading account are linked with one another, you can very well view and download the demat account holding statement from your trading account.
Yes. To view the holdings in all of the demat accounts you possess with a depository, you will have to download the Consolidated Account Statement (CAS) by logging into your depository’s portal.
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