Introduction The world has been buzzing about ESG or Environment, Social and Governance all at one time. ESG is everywhere from Funds, Government resolutions, Multinational bodies and Corporate Statements. As per a Bloomberg report[1] in 2021, Global ESG assets are on track to exceed $53 trillion by the year 2025, which will represent more than a third of the $140.5 trillion in projected total as......

Increasing Competition Between Private and Government Owned PortsThe Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed the Major Port Authorities Bill, 2020 to repeal the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963. The Bill seeks to provide greater autonomy, flexibility to the Major Ports in India by creating a Board of Major Port Authority for each major port and replacing the existing Port Trusts. The new law will clear the deck......

COVID-19 has been disturbing businesses for quite some time now and businessperson around the globe are looking towards various stimulus package from their government to support the business. However, there were some business which were responded positively even to the pandemic. Amazon`s Jeff Bezos got richer by $34 billion while Facebook`s Mark Zuckerberg got $25 billion[i]. During India`s lockdo......

SEBI on December 24, 2019 had introduced Stewardship Code for all Mutual Funds and all categories of AIFs, in relation to their investment in listed equities. The code was supposed to come into effect from April 1, 2020. Stewardship code is a principles-based framework that assists institutional investors in fulfilling their responsibilities to help them protect and enhance the value of their cli......