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A study by SEBI highlights how several companies have increasingly been using royalty payments to related parties and scrounging on dividends to investors.

Dividend is a very common reward in the world of stock market investing. What if we told you that in the last decade, the dividends pool available for the investors in India has become smaller. Not because these companies aren’t doing well but because they want to keep most of the returns for themselves.
According to a study published by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) last week, the royalty payments made by listed companies to their related parties (RP) entities have more than doubled in the last decade. From Rs 4,995 crore in the 2014 fiscal, to Rs …
Thinly traded listed entities have long served as breeding grounds for stock manipulation, hurting investors. The regulator, the NSE and BSE now want to fix things by focusing on efficient delisting.
The newly announced levy on UPI payments undermines the very foundation of using digital payments for stock market investing. Brokers are in a tizzy.
A Rs 10,440 crore share swap with listed Shalimar Paints could give the building materials startup a public market presence without a traditional IPO. But the novel route leaves investors grappling with dilution, valuation and governance concerns.