Zerodha Coin

Zerodha Coin is a recent initiative from Zerodha, a leading discount broker in India, for direct mutual fund investments through the platform.

Direct mutual funds are not so common in India, especially if you talk about mainstream investments. There has always been an agent or a middleman who used to take a cut. However, with the evolution of technology within the Fin-tech space, there have been multiple touchpoints that have been affected.

Investments in Zerodha mutual fund through its app Zerodha coin seems to be one of those instances.

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Zerodha Coin Review

This has been introduced post a recent circular from SEBI that allows retail investors to invest in mutual funds in demat form (via a demat account) through exchanges.

Zerodha Coin is one such direct mutual funds investment platform that allows you to invest in mutual funds directly. As per the claims made by the broker, there are over 2000 mutual funds available in the platform to choose from.

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Zerodha Coin – Why do You Need it?

Conventionally, if you have been investing in mutual funds, there have been two ways to do it:

Local Distributors:

Distributors are third parties that help you to invest in specific mutual funds, do your paperwork and place your investments against those funds. They certainly make the overall process of investment smooth for you, but there is a negative side to it.

These mutual fund distributors earn upfront 1.5% commission depending on your investment value and then consistently make another 1.5% trail commission every year as long as you stay invested with those mutual funds. These commissions eat out your investments, thus, cutting down on your returns.

For instance, if you invest ₹5000 per month for 5 years (assuming your investments are making 15% returns per year), then these distributors will take away more than ₹16,500 as commissions from your investments.

These commissions, obviously, increase cumulatively with your investment period. Most of the investors don’t realize this concern and end up paying these distributors every investment year.

Furthermore, with the advent of e-commerce, a lot of financial portals are providing the same service online as well. However, the business model remains the same.

And to remind you, there are no services that are provided by these distributors. The only help, one receives is the initial help in buying mutual funds and that’s it!

Directly from the Fund House

You can also invest in mutual funds directly through the fund house. For instance, if you want to invest in Kotak Securities Focus fund and Reliance Money fund, then you would be required to either browse mutual fund house’s website or visit their offline branch of office, fill up few forms and invest into the fund.

The concern using this particular method is that you would be required to fill out all those forms individually of the funds you are interested in. At the same time, you would be needed to track these funds, get the statements on your own. Thus, a lot of involvement from your end would be required.

This is where Zerodha Coin comes into the picture. Zerodha Coin allows you to invest directly in mutual funds in DEMAT form like you invest in Equity, Currency or other segments. With Zerodha coin, you can directly buy mutual funds online through Zeordha portal. The best part of Zerodha coin is that it does not charge you any brokerage whatsoever.

Zerodha Coin also prescribes you a few high performing mutual funds through the portal with return percentages and investment period.

The platform can be accessed through its web version to go along with the Zerodha Coin Mobile app as well. This can be downloaded from the Google Play store in case you are interested.

Learn more about Zerodha Coin and get answer to all your queries with Zerodha FAQ

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Zerodha Coin Charges

If you subscribe to Zerodha Coin, you do not need to pay any commission based on the monetary value of mutual fund investment, like what happens in the case of distributors. Earlier, Zerodha coin used to charge ₹50 per month irrespective of the value of your investment.

So, even if you are investing ₹10,000 or ₹50,000 a month or ₹20 Lakhs a year, you were required to pay ₹50 per month or ₹600 per year for all your mutual fund investments.

However, from August 2018, Zerodha has made investments through Zerodha Coin completely free. The broker has left even the ₹50 per month charge (mentioned above) after getting quite a reasonable competition from players such as Paytm.

You still will be charged a CDSL levied DP charge of ₹5.50 with a GST of 18% (Government tax) when you sell or redeem mutual funds.

Having said that, this could be a temporary offer and the charges can go back to the ones mentioned above whenever the broker feels like. Nonetheless, feel free to use the app for free until it is!

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Zerodha Coin Customer Care

Zerodha coin, as such, does not have its own exclusive customer support or service department.

In case you are stuck while using this application, in the name of Zerodha Coin customer care, there is only an email id for the support provided by the platform. You may also choose to get in touch with Zerodha Customer care as well.

The team from this customer support team will most likely be able to help you in your query.

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Zerodha Coin Fund transfer

If you are someone who has regular mutual funds plans running and wants to move to Zerodha coin with those funds intact, you can do so, however, the process involved is relatively complicated (depending on the demat mode you have used to buy those funds).

Here are a couple of ways you need to follow:

Option#1: Regular Funds in Demat Mode

You need to request DIS (Delivery Instruction Slip) from your current broker/agent with details such as the fund names you are looking to transfer, their respective quantity, your demat account number with Zerodha etc. The slips need to be submitted back to the broker and the funds will be transferred in a day or two.

This process requires you to pay nothing to your broker, although few brokers may ask some sort of hidden charges.

Option#2: Regular Funds in Non-Demat Mode

If your funds are in a non-dematerialized form, then you need to approach Zerodha so that these funds can go through the process of dematerialization. You may need to fill a couple of forms with the details of the funds to be dematerialized.

Once done, these funds will start appearing in your demat account and across the trading platforms offered by the broker.

For more information, check this detailed review on Zerodha Fund Transfer.

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Is Zerodha Coin Safe?

When someone offers you something for free and especially in the world of investments, eyebrows will be raised!

Well, it is normal to ask questions in such cases. You should too. After all, it’s your hard-earned money.

However, when it comes to Zerodha coin, things are much simpler. This discount broker carries a brand name, has been around for a while in the industry, is profitable and so on.

Nonetheless, you can check this detailed review on ‘Is Zerodha Safe‘ to be very sure on your doubts.

Groww Vs Zerodha

Both of these investment platforms offer direct plans for MF investment without any charges.

However, there are a few differences between the two investment houses when it comes to mutual funds.

You do not require a demat account with Groww in order to perform MF investments while it is a requirement in the case of Zerodha.

Zerodha allows you to invest in stocks as well. You do not get this provision in Groww.

Zerodha Coin Vs Kuvera

When it comes to Kuvera, the platform is completely free of cost. There are no charges for investments or maintenance of your investments through the platform.

However, when it comes to Zerodha, as said earlier, the MF investments made are stored in a demat account. This demat account has respective annual maintenance charges in the order of INR 300. However, the platform allows you to invest in other segments as well.

Thus, if you are solely looking to invest in MF, then between these two, Kuvera seems to be the better choice.

Zerodha Coin Vs Paytm Money

Lastly, Paytm Money also provides tough competition to Zerodha in terms of the exhaustiveness of the data and stats it displays in its app.

These data points may seem overwhelming to a few beginner users but overall it may certainly work as an edge of the Zerodha coin platform.

There are no charges levied by both the platforms for mutual fund investments.

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Zerodha Coin Disadvantages

There are few concerns using Zerodha Coin as of now:

• It’s a new initiative and untested in the market. Thus, it will take some time before the platform matures and gains user trust.
• Not valuable for low monetary investments (as explained above).

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Zerodha Coin Advantages

At the same time, let’s talk about some of the top advantages of Zerodha mutual fund investment platform.

• No commissions, whatsoever, neither at upfront nor at trail level.
• These mutual funds investments through Zerodha coin can be started, stopped or edited anytime as per user’s preferences.
• Zerodha coin provides one single consolidated portfolio for all the investments across segments.
• Setting up a Zerodha SIP, pausing it, increasing or decreasing the value – all such operations are smooth to use.
• The app is available for both iOS and Android users.

If you are looking to go ahead with zerodha demat account opening, provide your details in the form below and get started with Zerodha Demat Account!

The best part is you don’t need to provide any documentation if you have Aadhar card with you.

 

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