| The Finance Minister today held a meeting with several officials in the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) and will announce measures for arresting the rupee fall. The government is thinking of ways to incentivise sovereign wealth funds (SWF), especially those in the Middle East which have large amounts of money to come and invest in Indian debt and equity markets. In Indian debt market, one of the ways to incentivise them that is being considered is to allow them to rollover funds once maturity is reached.
Typically, now the SWF will once again have to bid for bonds. If rollover funds are allowed, then transaction cost for them will reduce and it will facilitate them to once again invest their money because these funds are for the long haul...............................................Full Article: Source
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