FPI and mutual fund investing

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A Foreign Portfolio Investor (FPI) registered under SEBI (Foreign Portfolio Investors) Regulations, 2019 may invest in units of Indian domestic mutual fund schemes, subject to aggregate limits set by the Reserve Bank of India and investment restrictions specified at the individual scheme level. FPIs constitute an important but non-dominant channel for foreign capital into Indian mutual funds; the more significant route for FPI participation in Indian equities is direct purchase of listed shares and bonds.

Qualified Institutional Buyer (QIB)

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A Qualified Institutional Buyer (QIB) is an institutional investor recognised by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) as possessing the financial sophistication and regulatory oversight necessary to participate in the QIB portion of a mainboard Initial Public Offering (IPO) conducted through the book-building route. The category is defined in Regulation 2(zd) of the SEBI (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2018 (SEBI ICDR) as an exhaustive enumeration of eligible entity types. In a mainboard book-built issue, at least 50 per cent of the net public offer is reserved for QIBs, making the QIB portion the largest of the three investor categories, the others being Non-Institutional Investors (NIIs, 15 per cent) and Retail Individual Investors (RIIs, 35 per cent).

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FPI and mutual fund investing

Qualified Institutional Buyer (QIB)