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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Once upon a time not very long ago the MD of a company (who had never been in a sales function) was making a presentation. At this presentation he would put the Customer on top….and tell the world that the whole organization existed for the customer. Obviously in this diagram of hierarchy he would be […]

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One big time broker who is also a CA….was involved in a fraud case. He went to jail – as did his father. Father-in-law was lucky he was spared. The father told one of my friends: “I do not know what my son did in life, but thanks to him I saw the jail”. For […]

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