Flock blog
Reading regulatory filings, sourced and dated.
Plain-English guides to the public filings Flock tracks: 13F reports, NSE and BSE shareholding patterns, bulk and block deals, and FII/DII flows. Every claim links to its source. Research, not advice.
How to track shareholder voting results in India
How to track shareholder voting results: exchange announcements, the Reg 44(3) two-day clock, the category split, and matching votes to fund disclosures.
What is BRSR Core? SEBI's assured ESG KPIs
BRSR Core is the assured subset of SEBI's BRSR: nine ESG attributes, a market-cap glide path, and since March 2025 an assessment or assurance option.
BRSR vs BRSR Core: what actually gets checked
BRSR vs BRSR Core: the full report is self-declared, the Core subset is independently assessed or assured on a market-cap glide path. Not investment advice.
Mutual fund scheme categorisation, explained
Mutual fund scheme categorisation is SEBI's rulebook for what a scheme may hold and call itself. What the February 2026 circular changed. Not investment advice.
What is a Life Cycle Fund? SEBI's new category
A Life Cycle Fund is SEBI's new target-maturity fund category that glides from equity to debt. Tenure, glide path and exit load rules. Not investment advice.
Solution-oriented fund vs Life Cycle Fund
Solution-oriented fund vs Life Cycle Fund: SEBI discontinued one and created the other in February 2026. Lock-in vs glide path. Not investment advice.
AMFI large, mid and small cap classification
How the AMFI large mid small cap classification works: ranks 1 to 100, 101 to 250 and 251 onwards on full market cap, twice a year. Not investment advice.
What is a business development company (BDC)?
A business development company elects BDC status under the 1940 Act, finances private US firms, and files 10-Ks not fund forms. Not investment advice.
What is a Form N-54A filing? BDC election
A Form N-54A is the SEC notification a company files to elect business development company status under Section 54(a) of the 1940 Act. Not investment advice.
BDC vs closed-end fund: how they differ
BDC vs closed-end fund: one elects BDC status and files 10-Ks, the other registers on Form N-2 and files N-PORT. Where holdings show up. Not investment advice.
Filing webhook API: disclosure events, pushed
What a filing webhook API needs: signed payloads, at-least-once delivery, stable event ids and a retry policy you can audit. Not investment advice.
What is short interest reporting? FINRA guide (2026)
Short interest reporting is FINRA's twice-monthly record of open short positions per security. What firms report, when it publishes, and its limits. Not advice.
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