New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Thursday meet top officials of leading sovereign wealth funds and pension funds including British Columbia Investment, Qatar Investment Authority, Temasek, US International Development Finance Corporation, Teachers Retirement Texas, GIC and Japan Post Bank to highlight the India story. These funds have total assets under management of about $6 trillion. The funds will have one-to-one interaction with the prime minister post the meeting over next two weeks, economic affairs secretary Tarun Bajaj said. Modi will chair the Virtual Global Investor Roundtable (VGIR) that will also see participation from domestic industry. Tata Group’s Ratan Tata, RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani, Sun Pharma founder Dilip Shanghvi, and Kotak Mahindra Bank MD Uday Kotak are among the 20 investors participating in the meet, Bajaj said. He said the whole idea is to highlight to these investors various investment opportunities.
