India is home to one of the world’s largest clean-energy programmes
In this last instalment of our series of analyses on India’s burgeoning solar sector, we explore some of the key areas of investment available for domestic and foreign investors.
The need to speed up power, logistics reform
Foreign investors consider energy and logistics costs in countries very carefully while deciding on investment destinations. To attract Western, Japanese and Korean companies leaving China in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, India Inc. Group Founder and CEO Manoj Ladwa argues in this fourth of a six part series of articles, that India must privatise its power distribution and urgently reform its logistics networks. Highlights: India’s power sector needs thorough structural reforms. India must privatise its power distribution and bring [...]
Unlocking India’s land banks
The Modi government’s move to create a land bank twice the size of Luxembourg to provide foreign investors with on-demand plug and play infrastructure will make India attractive for companies leaving China, writes India Inc. Group Founder and CEO Manoj Ladwa. Highlights: The Gujarat government’s decision to allocate plots to interested companies within seven days will address a huge pain point for foreign and domestic investors. This coupled with the Modi government’s decision to create a land bank of 463,000 [...]
Right time for India to push for greater FDI inflows
Despite a global recession, India is expected to be among the few countries that will still grow, offering foreign investors an ideal FDI destination as they look to relocate their factories away from China. Highlights: The IMF predicts India’s growth rate to bounce back to 7.4 per cent next year. India can escape recession due to its fewer linkages with global supply chains and its dependence on domestic consumption as the primary driver of GDP growth. India’s large domestic market [...]
India’s promise to its foreign investors
Even as India remains under lockdown, the Indian Government is walking the extra mile to reassure foreign businesses. The Indian government has been ahead of the curve in meeting the COVID-19 crisis head on. And even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his core team have been working on an exit strategy from the lockdown, another arm of the government, its foreign investment facilitation agency, Invest India, has been burning the midnight oil addressing queries from both foreign and Indian [...]
Bet on Indian stocks for long-term returns
Editorial While foreign investors exhibit concerns over Indian shares, experts advice that is it an ideal time to bet on debt-free companies for gains in the next three-five years. The panic over the outbreak of the global coronavirus pandemic has extended to the Indian stock markets, which saw the selling of massive volumes of shares by foreign investors. There are also several other factors behind this sell-off – the weak consumption demand and investment rate in India, the continuing banking [...]
A contrarian call in times of the coronavirus crisis
Foreign investors have been offloading Indian shares in reaction to the coronavirus scare. But the Warren Buffet formula suggests that investors who buy into the India growth story now could get handsome returns over the next three-five years. Highlights: With the 32 per cent drop in Sensex in the last two months, foreigners have sold more than $5 billion worth of shares in India in the past few weeks. Indian fund managers are advising their clients not to panic and [...]
Access India helps improve the speed and scalability of investment processes
The chief executive of Deutsche Bank explains how the bank’s new web-based investment platform will make it easier to invest in India. Highlights: India is considered to have the most evolved digital payments systems compared to 25 other countries. Complex documentation requirements for investments in India has long been perceived as a challenging process by most foreign investors. Access India, an interactive web-based facility by Deutsche Bank helps overseas investors achieve process efficiencies with FPI registration, associated documentation, due diligence [...]
Peru reaches out to Indian companies
An investment promotion expert for the South American country highlights why a free trade agreement with India will prove beneficial to both economies. Peru has an investment grade rating, the second highest in Latin America, from the three main agencies (S&P, Moodys and Fitch) and has managed to break the common false dichotomy that high growth tends to accompany inflationary pressures by presenting the highest economic growth and lowest inflation rates in the region over the last two decades. In [...]
Asian, British investors keen on India
Foreign companies in India eyeing sizeable growth. HOOQ to double India investments Singapore-based video-on-demand streaming service HOOQ is doubling its India investments and has changed strategy to focus on Hollywood and English premium video content to take on Netflix and Amazon prime, and drive growth in India’s highly competitive over-the-top (OTT) video market. Zulfiqar Khan, managing director at HOOQ India, told Indian media: “We are doubling up on our investments for India. We are investing in content, manpower as well [...]