Overseas Investment

Trade credits and loans were primary contributors to the rise in India's foreign liabilities, the data stated

In a Q&A, she says the interest differential with US does not matter so much because India has caps on interest sensitive inflows. Overseas investment is a very low share of the country's debt market

Gateway Partners is planning to invest over USD 1 billion in the next five to 10 years in the booming Indian economy, according to a top company official. It has already invested over USD 250 million in several Indian assets over the past five years. "Over a billion US dollars over the next five to 10 years," V Shankar, co-founder and CEO of Gateway Partners told PTI on Monday when asked about his investment plans for India at the sideline of the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Singapore. "We are looking at tonnes of opportunities in India, said Shankar, adding he was very optimistic about the consumer-driven Indian market. He also noted that foreign investment flow into India was being encouraged by domestic investments, led by entrepreneurs in the infrastructure-industrial programmes and long-term economic development plans. Reflecting on the consumer spending in the country, he said Gateway Partners has just opened two outlets last in Delhi and the NCR region. Tim Hortons, a .

This should help Indian businesses take and manage overseas exposure

Sebi on Thursday came out with new guidelines for Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) and Venture Capital Funds (VCFs) for making investment abroad, under which overseas investee firms won't need to have an Indian connection. Under the rules, AIFs can invest in securities of companies incorporated outside India. Besides, VCFs are allowed to make investments in off-shore venture capital undertaking, subject to certain conditions. One of the conditions was that such overseas investments were allowed only in those companies which had an Indian connection. Like, a company has a front office overseas, while having its back office operations in India. "The requirement of the overseas investee company to have an Indian connection... has been done away with," the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said in a circular. As per the fresh guidelines, AIFs or VCFs will be allowed to invest in an overseas investee company, which is incorporated in a country whose securities market ...

Foreign funds are showing signs of a return to Indian equities as recent declines in oil prices and the dollar bring some reprieve for emerging markets

Treasury officials believe the move may not work as rising interest rates abroad and high domestic inflation have eroded returns from Indian fixed-income assets

India Inc's direct overseas investment declined 67 per cent to USD 753.61 million in February this year, the Reserve Bank data showed on Thursday.

Delay in hiking the limit will leave doubts about the concerns that weighed on the RBI, and whether those concerns could arise again in future

After the Sebi diktat, international funds had stopped taking fresh inflows into their schemes

Sebi may raise the industry-wide limit from $7 bn to $12-15 bn

Amfi shows that net AUM of FoFs investing overseas stood at Rs 24,189 crore in November, against Rs 7,642 crore a year ago.

Says could lead to a downgrade in market classification

Overseas investors increased exposure to the capital goods space at the right time as the sector got a major boost from the capex-driven Union Budget

The logic of geographical diversification of portfolio remains valid even today

Fund registrations from the country drop to 4.3%; US, Ireland & Luxembourg gain

Prior to this, FPIs withdrew a net Rs 2,985.88 crore from the Indian capital markets (both equity and debt) during July 1-31

This follows an outflow of over Rs 110 billion from the equities and more than Rs 250 billion from the debt markets last month