FPI Investment

After pulling out funds in the past two months, Foreign investors have invested Rs 7,936 crore in the Indian equities in March mainly driven by bulk investment in the Adani Group companies by the US-based GQG Partners. However, if one adjusts for the investments of GQG in Adani Group, the net flow is still negative, meaning FPIs have withdrawn money even in March, Sanchit Garg, Co-founder & CEO, GLC Wealth Advisor LLP, said. According to V K Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Financial Services, the sustained selling by Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) appears to be over, since they have turned buyers in the last few days. "The near-term outlook for FPI looks much more positive now. Even though Indian valuation continues to be relatively high, the recent market correction has made valuations a bit more reasonable than earlier," Vijayakumar said. Moreover, going ahead, FPIs may not turn aggressive sellers due to domestic factors like an impressive turnaround in ...

Investment in the Indian capital markets through participatory notes slightly dropped to Rs 96,292 crore at the end of December 2022 from the preceding month on higher valuation of domestic markets. Before the decline, the investment through the route had been on an increasing trend since July because of a slump in prices of oil and other commodities and relative outperformance of Indian equity markets. Participatory notes (P-notes) are issued by registered Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) to overseas investors who wish to be part of the Indian stock market without registering themselves directly. They, however, need to go through a due diligence process. According to Sebi data, the value of P-note investments in Indian markets --- equity, debt, and hybrid securities -- stood at Rs 96,292 crore at December-end, as compared to Rs 99,315 crore at the end of November. The investment level through the route was at Rs 97,784 crore at October-end, Rs 88,813 crore at September-end, Rs .

After declining for three consecutive quarters, the value of FPI investment in Indian equities rose 8 per cent quarter-on-quarter to USD 566 billion in the July-September period, according to a Morningstar report on Wednesday. A fast-changing global macroeconomic landscape, sentiments and opportunities that the Indian equity markets have to offer impacted the direction of flows by Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs). Through the quarter, the value of the FPI holdings domestic equities surged by 8 per cent to USD 566 billion from USD 523 billion recorded in the previous quarter. Further, the value of such investment was USD 612 billion in the March quarter and 654 billion in the quarter ended December 2021, as per the report. During the quarter ended September 2021, the value of FPI investments in Indian equities was USD 667 billion. Consequently, foreign investors' contribution to Indian equity market capitalisation also grew marginally during the quarter under review to 16.97 per

This came following a net outflow of just Rs 8 crore last month and Rs 7,624 crore in September, data with the depositories showed

Sustained selling by FPIs increases investment legroom to 22% at the end of September 2022 quarter

Foreign investors have pumped in a little over Rs 51,200 crore into the Indian equity markets in August, making it the highest inflow in 20 months, amid improving risk sentiment and stabilisation in oil prices. This comes following a net investment of nearly Rs 5,000 crore by Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) in July, data with depositories showed. FPIs had turned buyers for the first time in July after nine straight months of massive net outflows, which started in October last year. Between October 2021 till June 2022, they withdrew Rs 2.46 lakh crore from the Indian equity markets. India will continue to attract FPI flows this month too, although at a slower pace as compared to August, given continued rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve along with quantitative tightening, said Manish Jeloka, Co-head of Products and Solutions, Sanctum Wealth. Arpit Jain, Joint Managing Director at Arihant Capital Markets, said inflation, dollar prices and interest rate will dictate FPI ...

FPIs had turned net buyers for the first time in July, after nine straight months of massive net outflows, which started in October last year

Between 2011-12 and FY22, the market value of FPI holdings had increased at an annualised rate of 16.5 per cent in local currency terms and a modest 11.5 per cent in US dollar terms

The swing in favour of Indian equities comes after a brutal sell-off where FPIs sold equities worth Rs 2.56 trillion since October 2021

Canada ranks seventh in terms of FPI investments into India, the total being Rs 1.7 trillion as of February 28 this year.

Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) remain uncomfortable with India's valuation premium and have sold about $20 billion since October

India remains among the top five emerging market economies seeing renewed FPI interest. While some see this as bargain buying, sustenance of these inflows holds the key for a firm market rally

Covid concerns, the hawkish turn by central banks to fight inflation, and sustained FPI selling had rattled investors last week

Real transition will begin only in Dec '22 for foreign investors

A red flag gets activated whenever the foreign shareholding is less than 3 per cent of the permissible limit, which in HDFC Bank's case is 74 per cent

The value of the foreign portfolio investors (FPI) holdings in the domestic equities reached USD 592 billion in three months ended June 2021, a surge of 7 per cent from the preceding quarter

Analysts say the decline in ownership is due to underperformance of financial stocks - the biggest overweight sector for FPIs

Strong and sustained retail interest can counter-balance FPI selling; small and midcap may outperform

Markets, Nomura believes, are dealing with three headwinds - the resurgence of Covid-19 cases; inflationary pressure with the rise in commodity prices; and rich valuations

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