George Soros on India visit next month
New Delhi: Investment wizard George Soros is slated to visit India next month, "to have a firsthand feel of the Indian growth story."

The chief executive of his investment fund — Soros Fund Management Agency - Abbas Zuaiter visited India last week and had held meetings with Ministers, bureaucrats and industrialists.

According to government officials the fund is interested in agro and food processing, textile, power, pharma, IT, banking and textiles.
It would also be looking into medium-sized entrepreneur-driven companies for taking up private equity.

The Soros Fund has investments in India through its Mauritius-based investment arm Quantum, which was FI investment. But the investment now sought is foreign direct investment into equities, the officials said.
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