Reliance Nippon AMC to raise Rs 8,000 crore via fourth tranche of CPSE ETF

The government, which aims to collect Rs 8,000 crore from divestment in the current financial year ending March, has so far raised about Rs 15,300 crore, including Rs 5,300 crore through the offer-for-sale (OFS) in Coal India. The government had raised a record Rs 1 lakh crore from divestment in 2017-18.

The government will offer a discount over 3.5 percent in its third CPSE ETF FFO.

After closing of the FFO, the units will be listed on the stock exchanges in the form of an ETF tracking the Nifty CPSE Index.

The number of stocks in the CPSE index has increased to 11 from 10 stocks with the entry of four new companies –NTPC, NLC, SJVN and NBCC from the power and construction sectors.

The three companies GAIL, Container Corporation and Engineers India exited the index as the disinvestment target of the government in these three companies were achieved.

Going ahead the companies will be removed from the index if the government holding in these companies falls to 53 percent from 55 percent.

Henceforth, the capping of individual stocks in the CPSE basket also has been reduced to 20 percent from the earlier 25 percent.

In the last three years, CPSE ETF has given an annualised return of 7.13 percent, lower than the Nifty return of 11.19 percent, while over the last one year it has fallen 13.39 percent as compared to the Nifty which gained 5.56 percent during the same period.