India deepest market for infrastructure in Asia : KKR

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MUMBAI: India is turning out to be one of the biggest markets in. financiers, according to KKR, a US-based private equity giant...

KKR plans to deploy a major chunk of the $6.4 billion Asia Pacific Infrastructure Investors II fund that it closed earlier this month in India...

market. for infrastructure in Asia because there is so much infrastructure build happening, and a lot of it is in the private sector, and the government has the national monetisation pipeline which brings a lot of public sector assets into private hands on a 20-30-year basis," said Hardik Shah, a partner in KKR's infrastructure team in India...

"KKR has been an investor in India for close to 20 years, and our investment, which stands at upwards of $10 billion, continues to ramp upward," said Shah..

"Finally, the ecosystem is in place with a vibrant ecosystem of different types of investors including InvITs, private equity funds like ourselves, and direct investors who want to invest in infrastructure," said Shah...

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