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As the prices of Indian stocks are in new highs every week,
many are looking to the Indian stock market to foreign private
investment. During the recent recession, many ordinary people
especially in the United States have made significant losses on
their investments in their small market share of investments.
But many insiders and large Investment Funds have used the
recession as a gift from God. Their profits have increased
several times and now many of them have become foreign
institutional investors (FII) in emerging markets such as the
Indian stock market. Many ordinary people from the west do not
know where to invest, and also seek new pastures for their
investments. This guide is to protect human rights.
Currently, India does not allow foreign individuals to invest
directly in the stock market. Those who are high net worth $
US50 million may be registered as sub-accounts of an FII. For
portfolio investments in India, you must be registered either as
a foreign institutional investor (FII) or as one of the
sub-accounts of FIIs registered in India. Both recordings are
granted by the market regulator SEBI (government agency), India.
Foreign institutional investors are primarily composed of mutual
funds, pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds,
insurance companies, banks, asset management, etc.
Foreign institutional investors and their sub-accounts may
invest directly in securities listed on an exchange. Investment
by a single FII in any given society should not exceed 10% of
paid up capital of the company. Regulations permit a separate
limit of 10% on investment for each sub-account of FII in a
given society. Foreign entities and individuals may be exposed
to Indian equities to institutional investors.
Many India-based mutual funds are becoming popular among Fund
investors. Investment could also through offshore instruments
such as participatory notes (PNS) and certificates of deposit,
such as American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), Global Depositary
Receipts (GDRs) and exchange traded funds (ETFs) and notes
Exchange traded (ETN). However, even small investors can invest
in American Depositary Shares representing underlying some of
the well known Indian companies listed on the New York Stock
Exchange and Nasdaq. ADRs are denominated in dollars and subject
to the regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC). Similarly, certificates of deposit are listed
on European stock exchanges..
Major U.S. funds investing in India are India Franklin Templeton
Mutual Funds, Morgan Stanley India Mutual Fund which is a
subsidiary of Morgan Stanley parent company based in the U.S.,
Alliance Capital Mutual Fund which is a subsidiary of Alliance
Capital Management Corporation, Delaware (USA). Prudential ICICI
Mutual Fund is a joint venture between prudential plc. U.S.
Most trade on the Indian stock market is paperless and takes
place on two stock exchanges -. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)
and National Stock Exchange (NSE) and both follow the same
mechanisms of negotiation, trading hours, etc. Currently the
settlement process, BSE had approximately 4,700 listed
companies, while rival NSE was about 1,200. Among all companies
listed on the BSE, only about 500 companies representing over
90% of market capitalization and are considered highly traded
shares. The two exchanges compete for order flow, which leads to
lower costs, market efficiency and innovation.
Trading on both exchanges is a limit order to open book in which
electronic order matching is done by exchanging information.
There are no market makers or specialists and the whole process
is order-driven, which means that orders placed by investors on
the market are automatically compared with the best limit
orders. Therefore, buyers and sellers remain anonymous. The
advantage of an order driven market is that it provides greater
transparency by publishing all the orders and the trading system
The delivery of securities shall be made in dematerialized form.
Each Trading exchange has its own clearing house, which assumes
all risk of regulation by acting as central counterparty. All
trade on the stock market takes place 9:55 to 3:30 p.m. Eastern
Standard Time in India (+ 5.5 GMT) Monday to Friday.
The overall responsibility of the stock market rests with the
Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI), a Government of
India Agency. If you want to have more information, visit the
website of SEBI or E-mail to her. In the last two months,
foreign investment, particularly from USA based funding is
all-time high U.S$. 6,000, 000, 000 in July and August , 2010.
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stock, Indian stock market, foreign institutional investors, large
investment funds, institutional investors fii, India, market, stock,
investment, foreign
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