Homegrown private equity major ChrysCapital on Thursday announced closure of its fifth fund worth $1.25 billion (about Rs 5,000 crore), taking up its total asset under management to $2.25 billion.
Having lost the battle for Hutchison Essar, Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance Communications is drawing up plans to invest up to $2.5 billion.
A capital gain is classified as short-term or long-term depending on how long you have held the asset.
Head of Deutsche Equities Keshav Sanghi states that medium-term foreign investors are still positive on India.
The Gujarat government bagged a total investment of Rs 2,05,000 crore.
With global investors buying into the India growth story, the size of private equity deals in the country has doubled in the last two years.
In the last couple of months, the Prime Minister has visited Japan and the US and launched the Make in India campaign to lure foreign investments into manufacturing sector.
Ballooning debt forces more and more Indian promoters to sell out to global majors and PE players.
Though the agro and food processing sector has been a priority for the state government, it failed to attract significant overseas investments at the recently concluded Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors' Summit-2007
On Tuesday, the domestic currency had gained 13 paise to close at nearly four-week high of 60.43 against the American unit following fresh dollar selling by exporters and sustained investments by foreign funds.
Barely two weeks after the Reserve Bank of India permitted 49 per cent foreign stake in stock exchanges
The government on Friday formally cleared Reliance Industries' Rs 16,000 crore (Rs 160 billion) petrochemical special economic zone, which would come up near the company's Jamnagar refinery.
Bank stocks rose sharply by up to 12 per cent after the government's move to withdraw 500 and 1,000 rupee notes from circulation as part of black money crack down
The Reserve Bank on Thursdaysaid it is keeping a close watch on global banking major HSBC.
Domestic investors have managed very well to minimise the impact caused by relentless selling by foreign portfolio investors.
Investment guru Carl Delfeld on why he is optimistic about India.
Conserving energy, the prime minister said, is the need of the hour.
It's also among the top five most valuable Internet companies in India, reports Yuvraj Malik.
Ahead of Budget, the Finance Ministry on Friday assured the global investor community of a simple and predictable tax regime.
MF investors may not be able to support markets fall if selling intensifies
On building a world class digital infrastructure, he said that 75 per cent work was done and it would be available by middle of 2015.
Rob Morrison, CEO of CLSA, says that investors at the forum are still positive on India. He adds that India has been outperforming its other Asian peers. \n
The central bank has ordered lenders to clean up balance sheets by March 2017
Hinduja business empire chairman S P Hinduja on Friday said his group was in the process of putting together huge funds in partnership with global investors for deployment in core sectors in India.
His statement comes in the wake of a Supreme Court order halting divestment in two oil PSUs.
In prior elections, not only have opinion poll forecasts been very different from the results, the error margin has increased over time. One need only look at the charts that show the Sensex half a year before and after the results day for the last six elections. The markets did not change direction in any, says Neelkanth Mishra.
Institutional investors led by foreign portfolio investors have bought these shares.
In the latest large opinion poll, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies were forecast to win a narrow majority in the 543-seat lower house of parliament, compared with previous surveys predicting that they would fall short.
FM has agreed to dump an ill-conceived plan to slap a retrospective 20% levy on overseas asset managers
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