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CPPIB's Alain Carrier on India investment strategy and looking beyond growth cycles
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, the country’s biggest public pension fund, has ploughed more than eight billion Canadian dollars ......
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How many PE, VC firms are investing in India and how many are really active?
The Indian private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) ecosystem is characterised by a huge chunk of one-deal wonders, or ......
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Local PE firm, hedge fund among anchor investors in Spandana Sphoorty's IPO
Hyderabad-based micorfinance lender Spandana Sphoorty Financial Ltd has attracted a set of prominent domestic and institutional...
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Podcast: Are private equity firms really to blame for VG Siddhartha's death?
Private equity firms have come under intense scrutiny ever since Café Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha was found dead earlier...
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Govt unveils capital infusion plan for housing finance companies
India is infusing an additional 100 billion rupees in housing finance companies to boost lending in the sector, a government ......
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Why India's $86-bn bank rescue effort isn't enough to ease the distress
It may not be quite a bottomless pit but the Indian government’s repeated injections of funds into the nation’s state-owned...
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Explained: Why PE firms do debt deals and what leverage they really have over founders
A note purportedly written by Café Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha, who apparently committed suicide earlier this week,...
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Venture Catalysts sets up $43 mn accelerator fund to back startups
Venture Catalysts, a Mumbai-based startup incubation platform, has floated a fund with a corpus of Rs 300 crore ($43.44 million)...
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Aviva plans to sell insurance business in India, other Asian countries
British life and general insurer Aviva (AV.L) is looking to sell its Asia business, valuing the unit at more than ......
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BlackRock raises $2 bn for global credit fund
BlackRock Inc, the world's largest asset management firm, said on Wednesday it had raised $2 billion for its flagship opportunistic...