Indian Equity Market
A Goldmine waiting to be explored
While the two populous Asian giants enjoyed nearly double-digit growth rates over the past decade, other countries—low, high and middle income alike—began to worry that India and China’s success might come at their expense. According to experts, the share of the US in the world GDP is expected to fall from 21% to 18% and that of India will rise from 6% to 11% by 2025 and will emerge as the third pole in the global economy after US and China.
By 2025 Indian economy is projected to be 60% of the size of the US economy and by 2035 India is likely to be a larger growth driver than the 6 six largest economies in the EU, though its impact will be a little over half of that of the US.
Indian companies will be the growth drivers for this phenomenal growth hence it will be smart thing to invest in these companies. The point that investors should understand about investing in India is that India is an investment goldmine for long-term growth. While short-term profits maybe churned out from time to time but they are not a penny’s worth in longer run but the gold mine would be for those who would be prepared to stay for the longer run.
The Sensex has given a return of 19 per cent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) since 1979, higher than any other financial investment instrument available to any retail investor and it has been even higher over the past 3-4 years? To be precise better then any other investment option in the world.
What this means in plain math is a Rs One Lac invested in any average blue chip company in India in the year 1979 is worth Rupees Fourteen Crore or (Rs.140 million). Added to this astounding figure equity investments in India have grown 32% in the past three years alone.
Although Equity does have a very huge down side risk as an instrument of investment, it has the potential to give excellent returns if you invest knowledgably and astutely. Also with the real estate boom slowing down, equity presents itself as the best available option for future investments in this fast growing economy.
Pradip Phalore, the author of this article is a MMS-Finance student ‘08 at SIMSR. He has started his own investment consulting and management firm -Salasar Investments.
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