Posted April 8, by Joshua M Brown. Today we have a very special treat — Nitin Rao is a blogger in the Indian markets, but he blogs in English at his brand new site Alpha Ideas. This is great stuff. Indians are hugely equity averse.

This amounts to a laughable figure of 2. In a country of 1.

Foreign Institutional Investors FIIs hold a larger stake in listed Indian companies Total Market Cap to GDP: The current Market Cap to GDP ratio is around In the last 19 years, the ratio ranged from a low of The two main stock exchanges for Equity Trading in India are the Bombay Stock Exchange BSE and the National Stock Exchange NSE.

BSE is the oldest stock exchange in Asia and claims to have the largest number of listed companies in the world. However, of the scrips stocks listed, only about a third around are traded every day.

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The National Stock Exchange NSE has a monopoly in the Equity Derivatives market. It ranks very high in global rankings for the number of contracts traded — 2nd in Stock Index Options, 3rd in Stock Index Futures and 3rd in Single Stock Futures.

Foreign Investors Now Welcome: Earlier foreign citizens were prohibited from trading directly in the Indian stock markets but since Jan , these restrictions are withdrawn and now they are permitted to invest freely. I have a theory that frontier and emerging market stocks have their biggest moves upon the moment of discovery and the floodtide of liquidity. I help people invest and manage portfolios for them.

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