What Should You Do With Recovered Unclaimed Shares? Next Steps Explained

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What Should You Do With Recovered Unclaimed Shares? Next Steps Explained Recovering unclaimed shares often feels like finding forgotten money - unexpected, satisfying, and a little overwhelming. After the paperwork, follow-ups, and approvals, the shares are finally back in your name. But once that r...

Why Do Shares Become Unclaimed?

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Why Do Shares Become Unclaimed? In most cases, shares don’t become unclaimed because of bad decisions or negligence. Life simply gets in the way. People change cities, switch jobs, update phone numbers, or move bank accounts. Old email IDs stop working. Physical share certificates get misplaced. Ove...

What is the Difference between Unclaimed Shares and IEPF Shares?

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What is the Difference between Unclaimed Shares and IEPF Shares? Most people don’t realise they own unclaimed shares until they stumble upon an old document or hear about the IEPF for the first time. Somewhere between missed dividends, outdated contact details, and forgotten follow-ups, investments ...

Investor Education and Protection Fund

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Investor Education and Protection Fund January 9, 2026 Most investors think that once you buy shares or earn dividends, your money is safely kept aside as investment, until you discover it’s not. In reality, over 1.1 billion unclaimed shares worth nearly ₹1 lakh crore are currently held by the Inves...

Unclaimed Shares: Meaning, How to Check and Recover It

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Unclaimed Shares: Meaning, How to Check and Recover It January 8, 2026 Imagine cleaning out your grandfather’s old cupboard and getting a neatly folded file of yellowing papers. Among those papers is a share certificate issued decades ago, mentioning that he owned around 100 shares of a well-known c...