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P-notes investment hits 8-year low of Rs 1.19 lakh crore in January

27 Feb 2018 Evaluate

The share of foreign portfolio investments (FPI) in domestic capital markets through participatory notes (P-notes) have slumped to nearly eight and a half year low of Rs 1.19 lakh crore at the end of January, amid tough rules put in place by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to check their misuse. This was the lowest level since August 2009, when the cumulative value of such investments stood at Rs 1,10,355 crore. According to the SEBI data, total value of P-note investments in Indian markets including equity, debt and derivatives, at January-end, has dropped to Rs 119,556 crore, from Rs 124,810 crore at the end of December.  

Of the total investments in January, P-note holdings in equities were at Rs 84,278 crore, while in debts and derivatives were at Rs 32,194 crore and Rs 3,084 crore respectively. The quantum of FPI investments via P-Notes decreased to 3.5 percent in January, from 3.8 percent in the preceding month. Investments through P-Notes were showing declining trend since June last year and hit an over eight-year low in September, however, it slightly rose in October but fell in November and the trend continued till January this year.

In July 2017, markets regulator SEBI had notified stricter norms stipulating a fee of $1,000 that would be levied on each instrument to check any misuse for channelising black money. Also, the regulator prohibited FPIs from issuing such notes where the underlying asset is a derivative, except those which are used for hedging purposes. The move was a follow-through of SEBI's board approval of a relevant proposal in June. These measures were an outcome of a slew of other steps taken by the regulator in the recent past. Further, it had barred resident Indians, NRIs and entities owned by them from making the investment through P- notes.

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