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India being a splurge economy, the obvious get-rich-quick strategy would be to cash in on the consumer boom on the bourses. The bummer: Consumer goods firms have a mere 7.9% share on the BSE Sensex. Ashish Chauhan, deputy CEO, BSE, says that the index wasn’t able to include more FMCG players “because they either have a small market capitalisation or aren’t liquid enough”.
But that doesn’t wash with Parag Parikh, one of Mumbai’s leading brokers. He says that such misrepresentation on the Sensex (and the Nifty) actually misguides investors. “The investors who ignored these indices and went beyond index stocks beat the market by a handsome margin in the past one year,” he adds. Clearly, the Sensex needs a quick and thorough overhaul in order to better represent the India growth story.
September 2025
2025 is shaping up to be the year of electric car sales. In a first, India’s electric vehicles (EV) industry crossed the sales milestone of 100,000 units in FY25, fuelled by a slew of launches by major players, including Tata Motors, M&M, Ashok Leyland, JSW MG Motor, Hyundai, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz. The issue also looks at the challenges ahead for Tata Sons chairman N. Chandrasekaran in his third term, and India’s possible responses to U.S. president Donald Trump’s 50% tariff on Indian goods. Read these compelling stories in the latest issue of Fortune India.
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