Mumbai
WHEN Nandita Agarwal Parker started her India hedge fund a decade ago, all investors in the US wanted to talk about were her children and her husband. "When I went to fund-raise in 2004, a fund-of-funds guy told me 'Honey, what you need is a sugar daddy,' " Parker, 49, said in an interview at her colonial-style bungalow, which doubles as the office of Karma Capital Management LLC, on the outskirts of New Delhi.
Ms Parker beat the odds to now run the best-performing India-focused hedge fund over 10 years with investors mainly from the US. She plans to boost assets in her two funds, including the top ranking US$70 million Karma STAR, sevenfold to US$500 million in the next three years, betting...