NEW DELHI — India has become a market that you can’t ignore, pushed on by government reforms and a booming tech industry, top industry experts have said. Speaking at a recent seminar hosted by The Asset in association with Deutsche Bank on the Asia investment opportunity and the post-trade response, they said that five years ago, India’s weighting on the Emerging Market index was 9 per cent. “It is now over 20 per cent. It is a growth story with a lot of structural positives – and a lot of positive stories around penetration in various product categories,” said a participant. As per the MSCI EM Index, the top 5 countries account for nearly 80 per cent of the weightage in the MSCI Emerging Market Index. India has gone from strength to strength in recent years. The inclusion in June 2024 of Indian government bonds into the J.P. Morgan Global Bond Index-Emerging Markets indices for the first time also sets the stage for billions of dollars more to flow into India, according to the panel experts. Moreover, global brokerage CLSA has just shifted its “tactical allocation” to India from China, citing growing concerns over Beijing’s economy and investor sentiment after...