The foreign institutional investors (FII) flow year-to-date touched a record high at Rs 18,519.90 crore. The overseas flow in the capital market during the month of November alone was a startling Rs 1,190.70 crore. They made a gross purchase of Rs 5,380.60 crore and gross sales of Rs 4,189.90 crore.
This is the third highest inflow by FIIs in the year 2010. Highest inflow was in September, which was Rs 29,195.80 crore and second highest in October, which was Rs 24,770.80 crore.
In an interview Mark Mobius of Templeton AMC had said that he expects USD 450 billion worth of investments in new issues in emerging markets like India.
However, Ashish Gupta, Director - Equity Research, Credit Suisse said India had been attracting a disproportionately high share compared to its index weight. “Compared to the pace at which it has come to India or the share that India has had total inflows into Asia, we expect moderation. But given the global liquidity environment, we are actually hopeful that foreign inflows into Asia in absolute terms will also be larger than last year. So, we expect 2011 inflows into Asia to be better than the inflows Asia saw in 2010. Although India’s share in that will come down, we are not expecting a major slowdown in the absolute level of flows.”
