After focusing substantially on exits in 2010 (when it successfully exited its investments in Mahindra Finance and ABG Shipyard), StanChart PE has announced four new investments in the first half of 2011 (in GMR Airports, Bush Foods, Privi Organics and Innoventive Industries). Three of its other portfolio companies – Endurance Technologies, Powerica and Intergloble Technology – are on the IPO

Edited excerpts from the press release:Fidelity Growth Partners India (FGPI) is to invest up to $15M to acquire a significant minority stake in Mind Shaper Technologies Private Limited. Branded as Classteacher Learning Systems, the company is a pioneer in K-12 educational content in the country.The investment will be used to further the company’s product portfolio and strengthen Classteacher’s

Pensions & Investments has an article on Religare's recent PE fund-of-fund acquisitions. Its strategy is to buy a majority interest in boutique investment management firms and let the acquired firm's executives continue to control the day-to-day work of investing...Religare's board has approved committing up to $1 billion to strategic investments in diversified asset management businesses

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