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India offers tremendous growth potential

8 January 2021
Jeff Feng
Jeff Feng
Vice President and Portfolio Manager
India offers tremendous growth potential
Key takeaways
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India offers opportunities in both the consumer and financial services sectors.
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India’s long-term growth potential has attracted many investments from global companies in traditional sectors such as consumer goods and in new economy sectors such as communication services and e-commerce.
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We remain disciplined in our investment approach and will not “chase” companies in search of returns but rather wait for attractive opportunities to generate potential excess returns for our clients over the longer term.

We are optimistic about India’s growth story over the next decade. With tremendous growth potential, global companies have been investing a lot of capital in India to capitalize on the growth opportunity.

Despite some macroeconomic challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic in the short term, the rising wave of consumerism, in our view, should continue to propel the economy forward and benefit companies with market leadership and strong moat qualities in their respective segments. We remain disciplined in our investment approach and will not “chase” these companies in search of returns but rather wait for attractive opportunities to generate potential excess returns for our clients over the long term.

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