Vol: 2, Issue: 1 2012

Page: 69-78

Study of Portfolio Preferences of Foreign Institutional Investors

Chandrashekar M. Mathapati

Received Date: 2011-12-06

Accepted Date: 2012-01-04

Published Date: 2012-02-05

The present paper describes on brief the legitimate framework pertaining to foreign institutional investors in India. The various aspects covered herein are registration procedure, condition for grant or renewal of certificate to foreign institutional investors, procedure when certificate is not granted, registration of sub-accounts, restricted and condition on investment by foreign institutional investors, code of conduct for the foreign institutional investors and procedure for action in case of default. This study is descriptive and experimental in nature as the effect of certain events or actions have been observed in it objectively and by distinguishing the effect of extraneous variables.

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