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Case Study: DHFL, Forensic Red Flags Before the Collapse

A forensic case study of Dewan Housing Finance Corporation, the AAA-rated housing finance company that went from a ₹690 stock and a ₹1 lakh crore loan book in 2018 to default, RBI supersession, and the first financial firm ever resolved under the IBC. Built for experienced retail investors, active traders, and HNIs who want to learn how to see the next DHFL before the rating agencies do. Works through the annual reports, quarterly disclosures, shareholding patterns, auditor reports, bond yields, and mutual fund holdings that were public before the collapse, and shows which red flags were visible, which were hidden, and what each one should have made you do. Covers the asset liability mismatch, developer loans dressed up as retail, shell company lending, related party and circular funding, the fictitious Bandra branch, auditor and rating agency lag, the September 2018 crash, the June 2019 default, and the Piramal resolution. Ends with a reusable NBFC and HFC forensic checklist applied to a live-style example using Screener.in and exchange filings.

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6

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~3.5 hrs

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Stock Market Basics

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Curriculum Breakdown

Chapter 1: The Set-Up, Why Everyone Loved DHFL

3 Lessons

India's Housing Finance Boom and DHFL's Place in It: The HFC Model, PMAY, and the Growth Story10 min read

The Numbers That Looked Perfect: Reading the FY18 Annual Report the Way the Market Did11 min read

Price, Valuation, and Ownership in 2018: What the Stock, the Analysts, and the Mutual Funds Were Saying10 min read

Chapter 2: Balance Sheet Red Flags

4 Lessons

Borrow Short, Lend Long: The ALM Mismatch, Commercial Paper Dependence, and the Cliff Nobody Priced12 min read

Wholesale in Retail Clothing: Developer Loans, SRA Projects, and How Loan Book Labels Hide Risk11 min read

Loans That Went Nowhere: Shell Companies, Common Addresses, and the Cobrapost Allegations of January 201912 min read

Related Parties and Circular Funding: The Wadhawan Group Web, the Yes Bank Link, and Promoter Pledges12 min read

Chapter 3: Earnings Quality and Asset Quality Red Flags

3 Lessons

Profit Without Cash: Why a Lender's P&L Can Lie and How to Read an NBFC Cash Flow Statement11 min read

The 0.96% GNPA Illusion: Provisioning, Restructuring, Evergreening, and the Ind AS Transition12 min read

The Branch That Did Not Exist: Bandra Books, 2.6 Lakh Phantom Borrowers, and the PMAY Subsidy11 min read

Chapter 4: Governance, Auditor, and Rating Signals

4 Lessons

Reading the Shareholding Pattern: Promoter Concentration, Group Entities, and the Holding Company Puzzle10 min read

What the Auditors Said and When: The Joint Audit, the Resignation, and the Going Concern Qualification12 min read

Rating Agency Lag: From AAA to D in Nine Months and Why Ratings Follow Prices10 min read

The Market Knew First: Bond Yields, CP Spreads, Pledge Invocations, and the Chart Before the Crash12 min read

Chapter 5: The Collapse, Day by Day

3 Lessons

21 September 2018: IL&FS, the DSP Trade, and the Day DHFL Fell 42% Intraday11 min read

June 2019: The Missed Coupon, the D Rating, and What Debt Fund Investors Learned About Side Pockets12 min read

RBI Supersession, IBC Admission, and the Piramal Resolution: What Each Class of Creditor Recovered12 min read

Chapter 6: The Investor's Toolkit

3 Lessons

The 20-Point NBFC and HFC Forensic Checklist Built from DHFL12 min read

Applying the Checklist: Scoring a Housing Finance Company Using Screener.in, Annual Reports, and Exchange Filings13 min read

Position Management: Exit Rules, Debt Fund Exposure Checks, and What DHFL Should Have Cost You11 min read