Tantallon India Fund Report, October 2024
The Tantallon India Fund closed down -4.09% in October, the largest drawdown since March 2020, with markets having to price in a massive rotation by foreign portfolio investors out of India into Chinese risk assets (following the Chinese stimulus announcements), significant new domestic equity issuance, ominous geo-political fracture points in the Middle East being reflected in higher crude oil prices, mounting uncertainty over the US Presidential Elections and its implications, local regulators actively curtailing retail participation in speculative options and futures trading strategies, and a tepid earnings season (given unseasonal flooding in several parts of the country and government spending being pushed by local election calendars into the second half of the fiscal year).