A significant infrastructure investment initiative was announced for the Indo-Pacific region, with a coalition formed by KKR, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), and the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Prosperity committing $25 billion. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo revealed this development during her visit to Singapore, highlighting the strategic importance of infrastructure development...
Singapore Fund Invests in India's Infrastructure Sector
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC will invest over $600 million for a 49 percent stake in a private Infrastructure Investment Trust controlled by IRB Infrastructure Developers headquartered in Mumbai. As part of the transaction, IRB will transfer nine of its Build-Operate-Transfer assets into the Investment Trust in which IRB will...
Singapore, Canada Sovereign & Pension Funds Favor India
Attracted by political stability, a growing middle class, and a reforms push making it more appealing for foreigners to invest, sovereign wealth funds are buying stakes in India businesses from airports to renewable energy. Wealth and state pension funds are investing in private markets, to complement an existing focus on...
KKR to Acquire Controlling Stake in India Grid Trust
With an eye on India's rapidly growing power sector, global investment firm KKR & Co Inc is leading a deal to acquire a controlling stake in India Grid Trust (IndiGrid) -- India’s first power sector Infrastructure Investment Trust established by New Delhi-based Sterlite Power Grid Ventures Limited, to own inter-state...
Global Captive Centers Outpace Indian I.T. Companies in Hiring
For the first time since 2008, global in-house center (GIC) hires by foreign companies overtook the number of people hired by India's IT services and back-office companies. About 1,100 GICs now employ 900,000 people in India. "While hiring by pure-play India-based technology services players was muted, Indian GICs have hired...
Blackstone's Strategy in India Yields Rich Dividends
Tuhin Parikh, senior managing director for real estate in Mumbai at the New York City-based PE and asset management firm Blackstone, has aggregated a 100-million-sqft portfolio in India. Parikh and Blackstone scripted a gold rush into the country’s rent-yielding office spaces, which saw Brookfield Asset Management, Qatar Investment Authority and others...