- Debt fund
- A mutual fund that lends to governments and companies instead of owning shares.
- Demat account
- An electronic account that holds your shares and securities, kept with NSDL or CDSL.
- Direct plan
- A mutual fund plan bought without a distributor, with a lower expense ratio than the regular plan.
- Diversification
- Spreading money across many holdings and assets so no single failure causes serious damage.
- Dividend
- A share of profits paid by a company to shareholders. Taxed at your slab rate.
- Drawdown
- The fall from a portfolio's peak to its lowest point before a new peak.
- Duration
- How sensitive a bond's price is to interest rate changes: roughly the % change for a 1-point move in yields.