Piramal made a massive 50% return on an investment on its deal with Vodafone. Does that make you the most successful private portfolio investor in the last two years?
It is for you to judge. But, it is a good investment where we have got 19% annualised returns. There is no success secret in what we did. I think we have always been consistent in giving returns. Even in pharma, we have given 40% returns to our shareholders annually, for 21 years.
When you had invested, Vodafone was embroiled in a court case with a tax claim of around Rs 8,000 crore. Also, the IPO market did not look good. Did you expect to make such huge returns?
We had done our homework. We were confident that these issues will be resolved. And, over time we did get the return we wanted.
Piramal has around Rs 10,000 crore cash on its books. Where do you see the next round of investments?
We will invest in our financial services business, and in pharma and discovery and will also look at investing more in Decision Resources Group which we acquired in 2012. (It was acquired for $635 million). The company is into information management which is into Big Data and analytics. It is a very good company. The information management business could grow may be around 10%.
Will you also look at other technology ventures in social networking, application development and other areas?
We will stick to information management.
Is there a timeline to make the investment?
I do not want to give a timeline as it will put pressure on us. We will look at it as opportunities come. But we already have a financial services business and we will continue to give loans from there. We already have stake in Shriram Group, which we will increase over time. There is also a funds business which we will grow.
What areas of drug discovery will you look at?
We continue to be in the pharma business and will look at discovering drugs. This will be in the areas of metabolic disorders and oncology.
Will you also look at making equity investments in stock markets, going ahead?
We will look at it as any other opportunity, and we are open to anything. We will invest anywhere where there is an opportunity to create value.
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