Limited Partner Focus: Asia Alternatives
Founded in early 2006, Asia Alternatives is an Asia-focused Private Equity Fund of funds. Asia Alternatives recently raised a $950 million second fund (as a successor to its $515 million…
Private Equity appetite for slowdown-resilient Education Cos. soars
Press Release Over 80% of Private Equity and Venture Capital investors surveyed by Venture Intelligence in its newly released “Private Equity Pulse – Education” report, plan to make an investment…
The New Normal in Fund Raising
Using an analogy with the pharmaceuticals trials process, “Super LP” Chris Douvos has some new advice for GPs raising a fund in the current environment. …I’ve got a confession to…
“Next Govt. has the opportunity to decouple India”
Moneycontrol.com has an interesting video of a debate on the impact the forthcoming elections featuring Ridham Desai of Morgan Stanley, Vallabh Bhansali of Enam Securities and Rakesh Jhunjhuwala of Rare…
“India’s Most Promising Entrepreneurs”
Businessworld has a cover story that profiles the shortlisted five high-potential entrepreneurs (selected by a 4-member jury consisting of executives from GE, Philips, Intel and HCL Tech): 1. Shashin Mishra,…
Rural to the Rescue?
Business Today has a cover story on how marketers are hoping to tap the relatively buoyant rural economy for their companies’ growth. It’s probably this resilience that’s prompting companies such…
Roadblocks for PE investments in infrastructure?
In an article for Economic Times, Srivatsa Krishna makes a fervent case for freeing up hurdles in the way of Private Equity investments in India’s infrastructure sectors. The one possible…
Hedge Fund selling isn’t over yet?
Investors in hedge funds believe the industry will see even bigger withdrawals this year than 2008, according to new survey by Deutsche Bank. As if last year’s carnage wasn’t enough,…
Why is the dollar getting stronger?
At Venture Intelligence’s Annual Private Equity conference in February, a leading PE fund manager remarked how investors were now forced to pay more heed to currency movements than their portfolio…
New entrants in the BS 1000 listing
Business Standard has profiles of new entrants in its latest BS 1000 listing of companies. The new entrants include OnMobile Global, Page Industries, Indage Vintners, Educomp, Shriram EPC, Temptation Foods…