A successful and thoughtful fund manager sent me an email me the other day, drawing a simple analogy about the government’s plan to recapitalise public sector banks (PSBs), an analogy that I have expanded upon. Assume that there is a bunch of listed companies controlled by a promoter family. The companies are value destroyers, racked by corruption. The promoter does not pay much attention to running these companies. The companies are short of capital because of piled-up losses but are sitting on a large amount of public deposits that they had raised. One day the promoter decides to ...
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First Published: Sun, October 29 2017. 22:42 IST
