In the 1990s big corporates would borrow money from banks and lend it to smaller corporates. All of them played this game – Bajaj Auto, Tube Investments, Parle, Ranbaxy, etc. as lenders and smaller companies like Shaan Interwell, Indiana dairy, Sun Ceramics,….as borrowers. However the overall return that the lenders got could not have exceeded […]

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There is a fantastic group in South India – the Murugappa group – for me they have made money. That is a good test of management. I have been an investor in EID Parry, Cholamandalam Investment and Finance, Carborundum Universal and Coromandel Fertilizers. All these have been in my portfolio for long periods of time. […]

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