Traditionally, the role of private equity is to buy mature companies and find ways to improve the operations. The result is often a tidy profit.
But over the past couple years, the strategy has been undergoing some changes. Look at the Carlyle Group. Recently, the firm invested $60 million in three growth companies in China. In fact, these deals came only four months after Carlyle raised its Asia Growth Partners IV fund.
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