Wednesday, June 25, 2014

New co-investment fund to be set up for SME lending

The government is planning to set up a first of its kind co-investment fund with the help of capital market regulator. Initially the fund will have a corpus of Rs 5,000 crore and will be anchored by two state-owned financial institutions, Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) and Small Industries Development Bank of India (Sidbi)
The fund will be modeled following Germany and Austria like developed nations investment vehicles to meet financial challenges to start-ups, especially in technology like high growth sectors as reported by Business Standard.
The Security and Exchange Board of India ( Sebi) is in the process of finalising a frame work for the co-investment fund and the announcement could be a part of the budget speech. 
 

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