Why private equity can’t get enough of India’s private banks

India’s wealth-management sector is growing fast, with new advisory firms constantly springing up. This is catnip to private equity firms keen to invest in the best growth-oriented private banks. But who will win this race and who will fall short?

In the eyes of wealth managers, few markets are as enticing and alluring as India’s.

New Delhi-based research firm Markets & Data tips the country’s wealth-management sector to grow at a compound rate of 10% between 2024 and 2032, with industry-wide revenues more than doubling over the period to $331.1 billion, from $154.3 billion.

If anything, that might be underplaying the speed at which new wealth is being created in the world’s fastest growing large economy, be it via stock listings by pioneering digital unicorns or via the prism of venerable family-run firms selling out to private equity to ensure the safe passage of wealth between generations.

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