ESG expected to contribute 34% of total domestic AUM by 2051, study claims
1 year, 2 months ago

ESG expected to contribute 34% of total domestic AUM by 2051, study claims

Live Mint  

Avendus Capital, the leading Investment Bank in India, has unveiled a report that underscores the growing significance of Environmental, Social, and Governance criteria in shaping the decision-making landscape of Indian equity capital markets. Unveiling the report, Gaurav Sood, Managing Director and Head - Equity Capital Markets, Avendus Capital said, “While ESG as a theme has already gained relevance in the global capital markets, it has begun to show green shoots within India. We also think that China’s underperformance within ESG is expected to create a China+1 opportunity, which will benefit India as it is among the top-ranked Asian economies in ESG rankings.” ESG-related investments in India are experiencing a surge in popularity, driven by three significant catalysts. In the context of ESG, the aspect of “Governance” within Indian companies has garnered heightened scrutiny from a multitude of stakeholders, accompanied by growing institutional pressure on publicly traded firms.

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ESG investing remains fraught with challenges
2 weeks, 1 day ago

ESG investing remains fraught with challenges

Live Mint  

With global warming, dwindling biodiversity and rising pollution threatening posterity and widening economic disparities, campaigns such as Race to Zero and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals matter more than ever. ESG funds have found favour among investors globally because they help meet responsible-investing goals while entrusting the arduous stock-selection process to fund managers. An ESG fund may be actively …

What Is ESG Investing and Why Is It Under Fire?
8 months ago

What Is ESG Investing and Why Is It Under Fire?

Bloomberg  

In one sense, defining ESG is easy — it’s an approach to finance and investing focused on managing risks from environmental factors, social issues and questions of corporate governance. Sorting out the differences between ESG and similar, sometimes overlapping strategies is harder, in part because the term has come to mean different things to different people. The widespread use of …

Unraveling ESG Regulations: A Closer Look At India's Approach
10 months ago

Unraveling ESG Regulations: A Closer Look At India's Approach

Live Law  

As the landscape of corporate India is shifting towards sustainability, the relevance of Environmental, Social, and Governance regulations is growing rapidly. Companies Act covers companies with certain turnover or net worth to form a committee to oversee various activities and policies of the company related to Corporate Social Responsibility. In the year 2012, SEBI introduced the Business Responsibility Report, making …

ESG Norms In Indian Corporate Scenario: Navigating Through Uncharted Waters
1 year, 10 months ago

ESG Norms In Indian Corporate Scenario: Navigating Through Uncharted Waters

Live Law  

Joshimath, a city of Uttarakhand is a hot topic everywhere on the news due to the land subsidence issue it faces today. Universal ESG norms remain a challenge as mandating environment standards’ reporting under ESG that is beyond a country’s commitments amounts to negating the efforts made for equity and climate justice. The problems of compliance with ESG norms become …

Watch out for special interests in today’s ESG gold rush
2 years, 3 months ago

Watch out for special interests in today’s ESG gold rush

Live Mint  

While Environmental, Social and Governance investing has taken finance by a storm, opinion is sharply divided over whether it represents the wisdom of crowds or the madness of a mob. Previously, this column had provided extensive evidence against the ability of ESG investing to bring about desirable social change and empirical findings supporting its inability to generate superior risk-adjusted returns. …

Time to separate hype from the reality of ESG investing
2 years, 4 months ago

Time to separate hype from the reality of ESG investing

Live Mint  

Legendary Investor Phil Fisher is said to have remarked that there are fads and styles in stock markets just as there are in women’s clothes. Whether this will endure to become a staple in inancial markets or go the way of bell bottoms and floral shirts is something that time will tell, but, given the fact that ESG funds hold …

ESG investing gains momentum globally, US leads with highest share of SRI assets
3 years, 5 months ago

ESG investing gains momentum globally, US leads with highest share of SRI assets

Live Mint  

Sustainable investing assets in five major global markets grew at a CAGR of 7.3% to $35.3 trillion at the start of 2020, beating the CAGR of 3.5% for professionally managed assets over the past two years, the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance said in its fifth biennial report GSIR-2020. The report maps the state of sustainable and responsible investments of five …

ESG equity investing ramping up in India on pandemic resilience
4 years, 4 months ago

ESG equity investing ramping up in India on pandemic resilience

Live Mint  

Equity investment based on environmental, social and governance practices is gradually gaining traction in India, helped by the strategy’s relatively strong performance during the pandemic. Since the country’s first ESG fund launched in 2018, three more have entered the field, with the category now making up 0.6% of total equity assets under management, data compiled by Bloomberg and from the …

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