There are certain inherent advantages that holding companies have. Typically these companies own assets and rarely have active business operations. When analysing holdings of listed companies, we came across two interesting stock ideas, which if used well could become good alternate investments. Both Maharashtra Scooters and Tata Investment Corporation (TIC) hold investments in several Bajaj group and Tata group companies. TIC also has investments in several non Tata group companies. Both these companies are trading at huge discount t