FPIs pare exposure to financials on rising fund costs, rate cut impact

The peak weight of the financial stocks in the FPIs portfolio was around 38% in the pre-Covid period. In 2023, FPIs deployed only 16.4% of the total inflow of $21 billion to the financial sector. Mirroring the trend of FPIs, local mutual funds too are paring their exposure to private banks with the sector weight in their AUM dropping to 17.1% in January 2024 from a high of 20.5% in June 2023.

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