Numbers are beginning to lose their relevance in the frenetically paced Indian private equity (PE) market.
It is now a given that investments in this market will grow manifold each year and this is likely to continue for the next three to five years, at least.
That investor confidence is only growing stronger is evident not just from the entry of some of the world’s largest PE firms in 2007 – Providence Equity Partners Inc and Apax Partners – but also from the increasing diversification of fund sources.
The US now accounts for about half of the funds flowing in while West Asia, Southeast Asia and Europe are also now significant players.
As the market gets more and more crowded, PE firms find themselves faced with one universal challenge – differentiation of investment strategies.
