| India's largest insurer LIC on Wednesday said it is willing to participate in India’s maiden sovereign wealth fund National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) as the state-owned company’s own core focus is also on infrastructure investment. “LIC has enough funds to invest in NIIF. LIC’s core focus is infrastructure investment. There is no problem in investment quantum,” LIC Chairman S K Roy said.
The government has set up the Rs.40,000 crore NIIF to facilitate funding in infrastructure projects. NIIF has already signed an MoU with Russia’s Rusnano, the Abu Dhabi Infrastructure Authority (ADIA) and the Qatar sovereign wealth fund, Quatar Investment Authority (QIA) to study investment opportunities in the Indian infrastructure sector...............................................Full Article: Source
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