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Glossary

Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.

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AMFI

Regulation & tax

Association of Mutual Funds in India — the industry body publishing official NAV and scheme data.

In plain terms

The primary source for fund data, free of whatever a platform wants to sell you.

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AMFI Registration Number

Market basics
Also called: ARN

The registration number identifying a mutual fund distributor, recorded against the folio it sold.

In plain terms

Striking it off stops that distributor being credited and redirects fresh money, but it does not move units you already hold out of the regular plan.

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Liquidity stress test

Market basics

A monthly disclosure by small cap and mid cap funds, in a format standardised by AMFI, showing how long the portfolio would take to liquidate alongside concentration, valuation and composition data.

In plain terms

Read it as an evacuation plan rather than a weather forecast. It does not say a fire is coming; it says how long the building takes to empty, which is a fact about the building and was measurable the whole time.

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Indian stock market glossary · Market Vidyalaya