Private Equity firm (PE)
A funding amount of Rs 700 crore will apparently be raised by Private equity (PE) investor Milestone Capital Advisors Ltd this year. The planned funding will be raised from domestic investors and will be invested in the realty sector. The proposed fund size has been increased by Milestone from Rs 500 crore – an amount [...] Continue Reading »
The improvement in the business sentiment private equity (PE) funds are hopefully going to get more investments from the domestic ultra high net worth individuals (UHNIs) who have increasingly been shifting their allocation to the riskier asset classes. Most of all these investments will be in the PEs that has been focusing on sectors like [...] Continue Reading »
Modi’s housing for all agenda had a positive impact on the residential realty segment and everyone is bee lining towards that sector. Blackstone the US private equity (PE) firm, one of the largest investors in commercial properties, is set to step up presence in the residential segment. The PE giant has resolved to invest about Rs 1,000 [...] Continue Reading »
Actis which is a PE (Private Equity) firm invests aggressively in emerging markets. It is one of the few funds which has invested a lot in India. However they have made a number of attractive exits in the last 10 years when the profit margins went low. Actis South Asia head JM Trivedi believes that India [...] Continue Reading »
The private equity (PE) firms are looking at exiting out of the real estate companies due to the slowdown in the economy and the slump in the Indian property market. When they exited their investments, many made a handsome profit too. According to a recent report by Brookfield Financial, until March 2014, nearly a fifth, [...] Continue Reading »
With the ending of the quarter this March, it was noticed that a large amount of money had been spent into the real estate sector of our country. Indeed huge chunks of cash have flowed into the sector with the help of private equity routes over the last couple of months. This event couldn’t have [...] Continue Reading »
Contrary to popular perception, especially when the real estate market is showing clear signs of sluggishness, private equity (PE) funds have been exiting their investments and making good returns. A recent report by Brookfield Financials revealed that, until March 2014, nearly a fifth of the total institutional private equity was exited by PE funds. Principal [...] Continue Reading »
Private equity (PE) investors are looking at India with different hopes. They feel that the emerging economy has the potential of providing them with good return on investment of their investments. A PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) India report estimated that India has the potential to get PE funding of $40 billion (over Rs.2.36 lakh crore) by 2025. It [...] Continue Reading »
Azure Capital, a private equity name in the market manages India Realty Fund-I ( IRF-I), and the private player now has announced profit distribution for the second time, which it has earned by scope of Fund May 18, says a source. Fund May 18 has five percent of its income distributed too, this would be [...] Continue Reading »
Many private equity (PE) funds like CX Partners, Multiples Alternate Asset Management, IVFA, Everstone and Exponentia Capital are trying to raise at least $3 billion (Rs. 17,700 crore) in the next 12 months. In interviews with media the spokespersons of these companies stated that post the formation of the new government the market sentiments have changed. [...] Continue Reading »
