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By Dalal Street Investment Journal (DSIJ)
NSE has received SEBI approval to launch derivatives on the Nifty India FPI 150 Index from August 12, 2026. The cash-settled futures and options contracts will provide an additional hedging tool for domestic and foreign investors.
The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) has received regulatory clearance from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to introduce derivatives on the Nifty India FPI 150 Index. The exchange will launch these contracts in the equity derivatives segment starting August 12, 2026.
The Nifty India FPI 150 Index is designed to reflect the performance of 150 stocks drawn from the Nifty 500 universe, with selection based specifically on accessibility and investability for foreign portfolio investors. Stocks are selected based on their six-month average foreign investible free-float market capitalisation, a metric that accounts only for shares available to foreign investors after excluding restricted holdings. Each constituent's weight in the index is also determined by the same metric, which means larger, more freely available stocks carry a greater share of the index's composition.
The index was introduced on August 16, 2025, with a base date of October 3, 2022, and a base value of 1,000. It is rebalanced on a quarterly basis to ensure the composition remains current and aligned with liquidity conditions. As of June 2026, the financial services sector held the largest weight in the index at 26.15%, followed by oil, gas and consumable fuels at 10.03%, and healthcare at 7.51%.
Under the approved structure, the exchange will offer three serial monthly contracts at any given point, covering index futures as well as index options. All contracts will be cash-settled, meaning no physical delivery of securities takes place, and will expire on the last Tuesday of the expiry month. The Tuesday expiry distinguishes these contracts from several existing derivatives products on the exchange, which expire on Thursdays.
Cash-settled contracts are standard for index derivatives, as they remove the complexity of delivering the underlying basket of stocks and instead settle the difference between the contract price and the index closing value at expiry.
The Nifty India FPI 150 Index was constructed with a specific focus on liquidity and free-float availability for foreign investors, two criteria that matter most to institutional participants operating under foreign ownership limits and repatriation regulations. By focusing on the stocks with the highest foreign investible free-float, the index naturally concentrates on companies where large foreign institutional positions can be built and unwound without significant market impact.
Derivatives on such an index provide a hedging tool aligned more closely with the portfolios that foreign portfolio investors themselves tend to hold, as opposed to broader indices where some constituents may carry meaningful restrictions on foreign ownership.
The National Stock Exchange of India is the country's largest stock exchange by trading volume. It operates across segments including equities, equity derivatives, currency derivatives, interest rate derivatives, and debt markets. NSE also manages a range of proprietary indices under the Nifty brand, which serve as benchmarks and underlying assets for a wide variety of financial products across domestic and global markets.
The derivatives contract on the Nifty India FPI 150 Index approved by SEBI increases the range of tools that can be used by both Indian and foreign investors for hedging and portfolio management purposes. The launch of these contracts on August 12, 2026, introduces an efficient hedging mechanism tailored specifically to the unique portfolio allocations and investment mandates of foreign institutional participants in the Indian stock market.
Source: Dalal Street Investment Journal (DSIJ), BSE, NSE
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