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A letter arrives saying the company is offering you more shares. Here is what a rights issue, a bonus issue and a share split each mean, and what ignoring one costs you.

The NSE trades on weekdays between about 9am and 3pm. What happens inside those hours — and what happens to an order placed outside them — decides the price you actually get.

“The NSE was up today” — up on which index? The four headline numbers measure different things, and one of them can rise while most of the market falls.

A money market fund is where money waits. Shares are where money works and sometimes loses. Here is the honest comparison, including the tax and fees each one takes.

Dividends that nobody collects for three years are handed to the state. Here is how to find out whether any of that money is yours, and the exact paperwork to get it back.

Your shares live in a CDS account at CDSC, not with your broker. Here is how to see what you hold, how statements work, and what to do when you no longer know who your broker is.

The legal minimum is one share. The sensible minimum is whatever makes the fees small enough to ignore. Here is the arithmetic, with worked examples.

Every licensed broker gives you the same shares at the same prices. What differs is the commission, the app, the research and how quickly you get paid. Here is what to compare.

Buying is the easy half. Here is how a sale works on the Nairobi Securities Exchange — placing the order, how it gets matched, what it costs and the day the cash reaches you.

You can now buy NSE shares straight from the M-Pesa app. Here’s how Ziidi Trader works, what an omnibus account means for your shares, and when a normal broker account is the better choice.