Unveiling a $30T Economic Vision Government funding has to be complemented by private sector investment. By 2018 to 2020, assets which were created in the early phase were completed and started earning revenue to become an asset class of its own. So that has again evinced interest of investors, says Padmanabhan Raja Jaishankar, Managing Director, India...
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Indian Infrastructure: Attracting World Interest
Indian Infrastructure: Global Magnet Funds, policies, technologies and a winning attitude, this defines the Indian infrastructure financing sector today. The first assets created under this National Infrastructure Pipeline are now generating revenue, thus whipping up more investor interest. The bonds market has seen significant reforms. The government remains the largest driver, but the private sector...
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Giving impetus to urban infrastructure
This article sheds light on the implications of the applicability of the Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) regime to the REITs (and the exemption there from) in the context of boosting affordable urban infrastructure.
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TD Power raises FI limit
Registered Foreign Portfolios Investors (RFPIs) can now purchase up to 100 per cent of TD Power Systems under the Portfolio Investment Scheme.
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FIIs investment limit in PowerGrid
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised the Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) investment limit in the Power Grid Corporation to 30 per cent of its paid up capital. The RBI said that FIIs, through the primary market and stock exchanges, can now purchase up to 30 per cent of the paid up capital of Power Grid Corporation of India under the Portfolio Investment Scheme.
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RBI tightens hedging rules for overseas investors
The Reserve Bank of India on August 1 tightened hedging rules for foreign institutional investors in the currency market, requiring investors who have issued so-called participatory note contracts, or P-notes, to gain approval from the note-holder before hedging. The order was the latest in a series of measures intended to shore up a battered rupee and helped push the currency higher to 60.48 per dollar. The rupee, which has been the worst performing currency in emerging Asia so far in 2013, is
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FIIs sell Rs 323 bn worth of debt papers in June
Official data shows that foreign institutional investors (FIIs), who bought Indian debt instruments worth Rs 22,000 crore during Jan-May 2013, sold Rs 32,336 crore worth of such papers in June. The heavy selling of debt instruments by FIIs led to a fall in bond prices and rise in bond yields. Yield on the 10-year government bond rose to 7.46 per cent, from 7.11 a month ago. This led to a negative monthly return of 1-2 per
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Sebi auction evinces strong response from FIIs
The recent auction held by market regulator Sebi for selling investment limits in government bonds to foreign institutional investors (FIIs) received strong response with 68 FIIs participating in it. The 68 FIIs are learnt to have submitted bids worth Rs 10,146 crore for investment in government bonds. But the amount of investment limit auctioned by Sebi is Rs 5,533 crore and consequently, the number of successful bid s
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Govt officials not in favour of limiting FII investment
Government officials are not in favour of the proposal of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to restrict the investment of foreign institutional investors (FIIs) to the secondary market. At a recent meeting, Department of Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram, discussed the issue with
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FIIs invest more in equities than bonds
Reports indicate that Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) are investing more in equities than in debt. Some analysts opine that FIIs are more comfortable with equities because there are no restrictions there. Moreover, arbitrage opportunities in debt may have reduced, they opine. Bankers said the overall cost for an FII to invest in Indi
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