2007-10-17 04:15:29 · 1 answers · asked by gmgswamy 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Corporations
Participatory Notes are Financial instruments used by investors or hedge funds that are not registered with the Securities and Exchange Board of India to invest in Indian securities. Indian-based brokerages buy India-based securities and then issue participatory notes to foreign investors. Any dividends or capital gains collected from the underlying securities go back to the investors.
In many ways, this is similar to an informal ADR process, where brokerages hold on to stocks for foreign investors. However, Indian regulators are not very happy about participatory notes because they have no way to know who owns the underlying securities. Regulators fear that hedge funds acting through participatory notes will cause economic volatility in India's exchanges.
2007-10-20 02:05:10 · answer #1 · answered by Sandy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋