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Does a for-profit motive hurt education?
A popular argument is that we must be wary of private equity investment in education because these funds operate with a profit motive that results in high fees and poor outcomes. This is selective hypocrisy complicated by a lack of choice.
12 Jul 2025
Has IndiGrid cracked the green finance code?
Blending capital from investors with varying risk appetite to fund green projects has emerged as a reliable model for the KKR-backed InvIT—its latest for India's largest battery energy storage project being an example.
11 Jul 2025
KKR appoints former CIA director David Petraeus as Middle East chairman
The investment firm has also set up a regional investment team to expand its presence in the Middle East.
14 Apr 2025
Temasek gets Rebel Foods for a bargain and a calculated punt
The 13-year-old cloud kitchen company is seeing a massive secondary share sale, after a long, tough phase. How did it attract a sovereign wealth fund and a private equity giant?
15 Dec 2024
IndiGrid, KKR’s power InvIT, has investors queueing up
The ability to generate consistent returns, grow its asset pie and tap future growth avenues put the infrastructure investment trust way ahead of its peers. Will IndiGrid’s purple patch continue?
11 Sept 2024
KKR set to hit the jackpot with JB Chemicals and Pharma
The investment giant is rumoured to be eyeing an exit with a 5x return, having taken the drugmaker from obscurity to a billion-dollar bidding war.
30 Aug 2024
Is Max Healthcare the new bellwether of the hospital business?
A sharp focus on cutting debt and sweating existing assets has ensured best-in-class profitability for the company. It now plans to grow bigger.
23 Dec 2023
No patakas for Paytm and K.V. Kamath’s many roles
There are reasons why Paytm’s IPO failed to impress and K.V. Kamath’s appointment at KKR raises some questions.
10 Nov 2021
The Reliance Retail investment proposition
How the third iteration of Reliance’s retail business works, and why people want to put money in it
29 Sept 2020