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    Rich Indians join the global party in vaccine company stocks

    Some domestic wealth managers said global pharma stocks are “too speculative nowadays” and investments of Indians in them are still substantially lower compared to those in US IT stocks.

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    “The trend of diversifying assets and hedging strategies away from home markets took off in 2014-15 and accelerated during the course of the pandemic around March and April this year,” said Nitin Shakdher, a professional institutional investor and founder of Green Capital Single Family Office.

    Mumbai: Rich Indians have joined the global investment game of buying stocks of pharma MNCs at the frontline of Covid vaccine development. In the last couple of months, especially in recent weeks, many high networth individuals and even a few retail investors have bought stocks of Moderna, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Abbott and Sanofi.It’s all perfectly aboveboard – the stock buys happen via the Liberalised
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