1. FOREIGN PORTFOLIO INVESTMENTS
IN INDIA
CAUSES AND IMPACT
Reema D’Souza- PG14069
Sneha Singh- PG14083
Akanksha Gandhi- PG14091
Shweta Ghag- PG14097
Chaitra Mhatre- PG14101
2. Foreign Portfolio Investment
• FPI is securities and other financial assets passively held by foreign investors
• Origin of FPI
• After the Second World War, developing countries made efforts to achieve rapid
economic growth and to alleviate problems of poverty and unemployment
• Rapid growth of international trade.
3. • The developing countries faced shortage of capital.
• Capital flows in the form of foreign aid
• Developing countries faced difficulty in implementing the conditionality’s of
undertaking from IMF and World Bank
Foreign Portfolio Investment
4. Foreign Investment in India
Foreign Capital Investment
in India
Foreign Direct Investment Foreign Portfolio Investment
• The foreign direct investment (FDI) is the investment in the construction of
physical capital in the capital- importing country.
• FPI is securities and other financial assets passively held by foreign
investors
5. Foreign Portfolio Investment
• FPI does not provide the investor with direct ownership of financial
assets, and thus no direct management of a company.
• It is relatively liquid, depending on the volatility of the market invested
in.
• Involves short-term positions in financial assets of international
markets, and is similar to investing in domestic securities.
6. Foreign Portfolio Investment
Categories of FPI
• Category I (Low Risk) which would include Government and entities like
Foreign Central banks, Sovereign wealth Funds, Multilateral Organizations,
etc.
• Category II (Moderate Risk) which would include Regulated entities such as
banks, Pension Funds, Insurance Companies, Mutual Funds, Investment
Trusts, Asset Management Companies, University related endowments
(already registered with SEBI)
• Category III (High Risk) which would include all other FPIs not eligible to be
included in the above two categories
7. Foreign Portfolio Investment
Foreign
Portfolio
Investment
FII GDRs/ADRs Offshore Funds
• FII: Investments made by foreign institutions like pension funds, foreign mutual funds etc. in
the financial markets.
• GDRs and ADRs: They are instruments which signify the purchase of share of Indian
companies by foreign investors or American investors respectively
• Off-shore funds: The schemes of mutual funds that are launched in the foreign country
8. Composition of FPI
Depository Receipts:
• A Depository Receipt (DR) is a financial instrument representing certain
securities (e.g. shares, bonds etc.)
• Securities are deposited with the domestic custodian bank and DR’s are
issued by depository bank in targeted country.
• Depository receipts are negotiable security.
10. Financial Institution Investment:
• A foreign institutional investor (FII) is a person or a group of people
operating or registered in a country that’s not their domicile.
• Foreign institutional investor groups often operate as hedge funds,
pension funds, insurance companies, and mutual funds.
• FII’s in India are regulated by SEBI.
• India has changed its foreign investor laws to allow FIIs to own up to
100% of Indian companies in certain industries.
12. Offshore Funds & Others:
• An offshore fund refers to a mutual fund that invests its assets abroad and
not in domicile country.
• Offshore funds offer investors access to international markets and major
exchanges.
• In India a few companies that have offshore mutual funds are Reliance,
Kotak and TATA.
15. Benefits of FPI
• Portfolio Diversification
• International Credit
• Benefit from Exchange Rate
• Access to bigger market
16. • 1992-Indian government allowed the foreign investors to invest in the financial markets
SEBI regulations-encourage FIIs to invest in India
ADR/GDRs helps to overcome limitations
Indian companies like Reliance, Kotak and TATA started having offshore mutual funds
• In 1993-94 FII investment has increased consistently from 1.6 billion dollars to approximately
127.8 billion dollars till December 2011
• In 1996-97 the share of ADR/GDR flows was 41 % and that of FII flows was 58%.
• In 1997-98 and 1998-99 there was a reversal in FII investment due to the impact of the Asian
crisis.
• In1999-2000 FII flows to the Indian economy revived but again dipped to 2.77 billion dollars in
2002-03.
TRENDS IN FPI
17. • In 2001-02 international financial markets were also taking measures to attract firms in the emerging
markets to list on their stock exchanges-resulted investment flowing into India through the ADR/GDR
route
• In 2003-04 FIIs flows were up to 10.9 billion dollars
increase in the limit of investment by FIIs in the securities of the Indian companies
increase in the number of sectors in which the investment could be made
• In 2007-08 the share of ADR/GDR flows was 24% and that of FII flows was 75%.
• In 2009-10 FII flows accounted for 89% of the total flows while ADR/GDR flows were 10% of the total
flows but no investment on account of offshore funds.