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Government vide press release dated November 18, 2011 has decided to: a. Increase the current limit of FII investment in Government Securities by US $ 5 billion raising the cap to US $ 15 billion. The incremental limit of US $ 5 billion can be invested in securities without any residual maturity criterion; b. Increase the current limit of FII investment in corporate bonds by US $ 5 billion raising the cap to US $ 20 billion. The incremental limit of US $ 5 billion can be invested inlisted corporate bonds.
It has been decided that mutual funds can participate in repos in corporate debt securities as per the guidelines issued by RBI from time to time, subject to the following conditions: a. The gross exposure of any mutual fund scheme to repo transactions in corporate debt securities shall not be more than 10 % of the net assets of the concerned scheme. b. The cumulative gross exposure through repo transactions in corporate debt securities along with equity, debt and derivatives shall not exceed 100% of the net assets of the concerned scheme.
The proposed regulatory framework intends to regulate the activity of providing investment advisory services in various forms by a wide range of entities including independent financial advisors, banks, distributors, fund managers etc. The investment advice may be provided for investments in various financial products including but not limited to securities, insurance products, pension funds, etc. While the activity of giving investment advice will be regulated under the proposed framework through an SRO, issues relating to financial products other than securities shall come under the jurisdiction of the respective sectoral regulators such as action for mis‐selling, violation of code of conduct, conflict of interest etc. The SRO set up for the regulation of Investment Advisors shall follow the rules/regulations laid down by respective regulators for products falling in their jurisdiction, including but not limited to suitability and appropriateness of the products.
It is clarified that the subsidiaries of stock exchanges, acting as stock brokers, may rely upon the ‘in-person’ verification done by their sub-brokers (who are also registered with SEBI as stock brokers of the parent stock exchange) for their respective clients. However, the ultimate responsibility for ‘in-person’ verification would remain with the subsidiaries and they shall obtain the necessary IPV documents for their records.
Regulation 11 of MIMPS Regulations inter alia prescribes certain obligations on the recognised stock exchanges pertaining to their shareholding including submission of a report to SEBI within 15 days from the end of each quarter. In this regard, it has been observed that stock exchanges have been submitting the said report in different formats. Accordingly, it has been decided to standardize the format of reporting of shareholding pattern of the recognised stock exchange under MIMPS Regulations.
This is in continuation of the circular No SEBI/CFD/DCR/SAST/ 1/2011/09/23 dated September 23, 2011 on the captioned Regulations wherein various formats for the reports/ disclosures to be filed were specified. The formats for disclosures for acquisition and disposal of shares under Regulation 29 (1) and 29 (2) of the Regulations, which have since been finalized are placed as Annexure-A and Annexure-B respectively.
Securities and Exchange Broad of India CIRCULAR CIR/MRD/DP/11/2011, Dated- October 14, 2011 To, All Stock Exchanges Dear Sir / Madam, Sub: Establishment of Connectivity with both depositories NSDL and CDSL – Companies eligible for shifting from Trade for Trade Settlement (TFTS) to normal Rolling Settlement 1. It is observed from the information provided by the […]
In exercise of the poweis conferred by Settion 30 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (15 of 1992), the Board hereby makes the following Regulations to further amend the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Employees’ Service) Regulations, 2001
(a) Amendments to Clause 41 – Disclosure of quarterly financial results- i) In order to give a better comparative picture of the quarterly financial results, listed entities shall disclose figures in respect of immediately preceding quarter as well in addition to the existing requirements. ii) Listed entities shall also submit the last quarter results along with the audited annual results. (b) Amendments to Clause 41 – Submission of financial results- It is being observed that certain listed entities, while submitting their interim financial results, submit unaudited financials first and subsequently submit the limited review report after a lag. It is hereby clarified that submission of unaudited results shall be accompanied by the limited review report of the auditors.
Capital market regulator Sebi vide CIRCULAR MIRSD/SE/Cir-21/2011 , Dated- October 5, 2011 announces introduction of uniform forms and documents for the purpose of customer identification by different market intermediaries like stock exchanges and mutual funds, a step intended to bring uniformity to the process. The new rule will be effective from January 1 next year.
