Foreign Investors Pump In Rs.22,000 Cr So Far In July

This includes a net investment of Rs.70,550 crore in equities and Rs.74,000 crore into debt market.

From the beginning of June, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) along with sub-accounts and qualified foreign investors have been clubbed together by the market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India, to create a new investor category called foreign portfolio investors. The strong inflow in the recent months has taken the cumulative net investment of foreign investors into India to $195 billion. In rupee terms, their investments are at Rs.9.35 lakh crore level.

FIIs, the main driver of the equity market, have helped in pushing up the benchmark BSE Sensex by over 20 per cent in the first six months of the year. Foreign investors had made a net investment of Rs.62,288 crore in the country's securities market in 2013 (January-December). This included a net investment of Rs.1.13 lakh crore in equities while they pulled out a net amount of Rs.50,848 crore.

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