International and Emerging Markets Blog
Saturday, January 10, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
| Tags: India,
economy,
India Watch,
investing,
Abhishek Sharman,
IEP Advisors Private Ltd
Going into 2009, India appears more attractive than most other nations as a destination for investing capital. The economy is growing, is less dependent on exports and has sufficient head room on most “per capita” metrics to support continued interest from the investor community. The country does have its challenges- it has a fiscal deficit situation to take care of and looks destined to have a weak coalition government in the next elections; but the corporate will and strong domestic consumption should be able to tide the country through the challenges of the current economic environment.
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Friday, January 09, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
| Tags: India,
investment,
global,
Colin Johnson,
frauds,
India Watch,
protecting,
LSE,
South Asia Group
The start of 2009 has seen a number of high profile company frauds around the world. India was also not immune from this with its own high profile cases.
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
| Tags: India,
investment,
economy,
global,
India Watch,
LSE,
South Asia Group,
aim,
economic,
Alex Wright,
FTSE,
Robert Beenstock
With the first quarter of 2009 now over, we have had the opportunity to develop a greater understanding of the global economic turmoil and the extent of its effects on India and the rest of the world.
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
| Tags: India,
investment,
global,
India Watch,
infrastructure,
South Asia Group,
deals,
Anuj Chande,
value,
Pankaj Karna
The decline of the global economic environment has had a predictably negative effect on Indian Merger & Acquisition (M&A) activity. M&A deal volumes and values fell in the first 2 months of the year in comparison to the corresponding periods over 2008 and 2007. The total number of M&A deals in this period stood at 35 - down from 99 in 2008. With the fall in the volume of deals, there has also been a fall in the value. In the first 2 months of the year, the total value of the 35 deals stood at $1.2 billion - down from $4.6 billion over the same period in 2008.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
| Tags: India,
investment,
India Watch,
LSE,
South Asia Group,
aim,
Fiona Owen,
FTSE
Grant Thornton’s latest India Watch index reveals that Indian companies listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) have collectively outperformed both the FTSE 100 and FTSE ASEAN indices over the first quarter of 2009 and continue to outperform the FTSE AIM All-Share, the FTSE AIM 100 and the FTSE AIM UK 50 indices since 1 January 2007.
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Monday, January 05, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
| Tags: India,
investment,
global,
India Watch,
South Asia Group,
deals,
Anuj Chande,
economic,
Pankaj Karna
The year 2008 witnessed a global economic downturn due to the subprime credit crisis, fluctuating commodity and equity prices and the closure of numerous investment banks and other financial institutions. Despite recent events, M&A and Private Equity Investment (PE) activity in India has seen some of the largest deals in sectors including Microfinance, Automotive and Oil & Gas, showing a significant increase in the type of sectors available in the Indian market.
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Sunday, January 04, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
| Tags: India,
investment,
global,
India Watch,
infrastructure,
aim,
economic
As India enters into 2009, the opportunity arises to look back on the unprecedented year just passed – a year in which social, political and economic factors all contributed to a testing year for India.
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Saturday, January 03, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
| Tags: India,
finance,
investment,
India Watch,
Glenn Stone,
infrastructure,
South Asia Group,
deals
India’s infrastructure problems have been widely reported. Airports are congested, railways are crowded, ports are clogged. Electricity shortages are common and a public healthcare system is practically non existent.
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Friday, January 02, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
| Tags: India,
global,
India Watch,
infrastructure,
deals,
Jonathan Morris,
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP,
Mark Lewis
Whilst it will hardly come as a surprise that there is little to no current activity for Indian clients in the equity capital markets, we do see Indian infrastructure groups looking ahead to possible IPOs in London later this year or in early 2010. Time will tell as to whether the markets will be open by then.
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Thursday, January 01, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
| Tags: India,
investment,
global,
India Watch,
LSE,
South Asia Group,
aim,
Fiona Owen
Grant Thornton’s latest India Watch index reveals that, despite the current tough market conditions, Indian companies listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) are still collectively outperforming both the AIM 100 and the AIM all-share by a wide margin.
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