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Primary issuances attract most FPI inflows, MFs turn to mid-caps
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SME Times News Bureau | 24 Sep, 2020
Inflow of foreign portfolio investments (FPI) surged last month with
around $6 billion, or around Rs 47,000 crore, of net investments by
overseas investors with a majority meant for primary issuances of
shares.
Around 63 per cent of net FPI flows last month were into primary issuances, according to a report by ICICI Securities.
Interestingly,
last month, India outperformed other emerging markets in terms of
inflows. The report also said that domestic institutional investments
(DII) too had positive flows towards primary issuances, although the
secondary flows continued to be negative with an outflow of $1.5
billion.
"FPIs deployed a relatively high $6 billion in Aug' 20
into Indian stocks but the higher proportion of the flows went into
absorbing primary issues," the report said.
As per the report,
FPIs were buyers across sectors, except for selling in consumer staples
and telecom. The top bought sectors were banks (Rs 9,200 crore),
consumer discretionary (Rs 2,100 crore), and auto (Rs 1,300 crore) and
pharma (Rs 1,300 crore).
Jyoti Roy, DVP-Equity Strategist, Angel
Broking Ltd, said that Indian equities closed in the green for the third
month in a row in August with the benchmark Nifty up by 2.8 per cent.
The rally in August was driven by FII flows which stood at Rs 47,080
crore which is the highest during the calendar year, Roy added.
According
to Roy, positive global cues, US Fed-induced liquidity, weak dollar
index, better than expected Q1 FY2021 numbers, along with continued
improvement in underlying economic conditions both globally and India,
led to such large inflows in the month of August.
Amit Jain,
Co-founder and CEO of Ashika Wealth Advisors, said: "The inflow had come
on hope that by December, we may have vaccine for the coronavirus &
market is already started discounting earning of the financial year
2021-22 in hope of early economic revival."
Further, mutual fund
flows into mid-cap stocks improved further in August 2020 while outflows
were largely seen from large-caps and marginal selling in small-caps.
The
report noted that significant outperformance of small and mid-caps over
NIFTY50 in August is continuing into September especially post the SEBI
circular on multi-cap funds.
Small and mid-cap category could
attract institutional flows due to a range of factors including
continued global liquidity post the new "flexible inflation targeting"
framework of the US Federal Reserve and regulatory push wherein the
latest circular by the SEBI mandates the largest category of equity
schemes offered by MFs to hold minimum 25 per cent of AUM in each of the
mid and small-cap stocks category, among others.
Top bought
sectors by MFs were private banks, IT, other financials and telecom. MFs
top sold sectors were energy, consumer staples and discretionary,
metals and auto.
There has, however, been a dip in FPIs in
September and analysts say the upcoming US elections and the resurgence
of Covid cases across the world, especially Europe, has played a role.
"The
market is factoring in election results of the US and the markets may
remain volatile for the next couple of months," Jain said.
Angel
Broking's Roy also said that with the recent downward bias in global
markets due to surge in infections globally, especially in Europe, the
FPI outflow is likely to continue in the short term.
The recent
bearish trend worsened on Thursday as the Indian stock market witnessed
its worst performance in around four months. The BSE Sensex crashed
1,114.82 points to settle at 36,553.60 points.
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66.20
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64.50 |
UK Pound
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87.50
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84.65 |
Euro
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78.25
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75.65 |
Japanese
Yen |
58.85 |
56.85 |
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