 "hedge funds")
Private Equity /Venture Capital investments have recorded a new high at $21.8 billion in 2017 so far, surpassing the previous record of USD 19.6 billion in 2015.
The funds have invested this money across 496 deals from January to October 2017. According to EY's monthly PE deal tracker, the increase has been primarily driven by a significant number of large deals of value $500 million and above and many involving big bets by global pension funds.
Till date, 2017 has recorded seven such deals aggregating $8.6 billion, of which four deals were greater than $1 billion, in contrast to
