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In this article, we will discuss who the Qualified Foreign Investors are and what are the permissible transactions they can invest in?
The Qualified Foreign Investor (QFI) is nothing but a sub-category of Foreign Portfolio Investor (FPI) and it denotes to any foreign individuals, groups or associations, or resident, however, limited to
iii) or a signatory of a bilateral MOU with SEBI.
Union Budget has announced such a QFI scheme and Government of India introduced this in consultation with RBI and SEBI in the year 2011.
The main purpose of enabling QFIs is to deepen and infuse more foreign funds in the Indian capital market and to reduce market volatility as individuals are generally assumed to be long-term investors, as compared to institutional investors in the market. Thus to open the way for foreign funds in Indian markets and further invest them to earn the profit from such investments.
QFIs are permitted to make investments in specified/selected instruments by opening a demat account in any one of the SEBI approved Qualified Depository Participant (QDP).
However, there are certain key Investment Restrictions and further limits in the case of investments made by QFIs.
QFIs precludes FIIs/Sub-accounts/ Foreign Venture Capital Investor (FVCI).
Thus, QFIs play a very vital role in the investment sector of the Indian market.
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