A lot has been written on this issue, but a deeper understanding of the crisis and decisions leading up to the event needs to be understood. Following, Franklin Templeton MF had shut six debt mutual fund schemes on April 23, citing redemption pressures and lack of liquidity in the bond market. Undoubtedly, the schemes — … [Read more…]
ESG investing stands for Environmental, Social and Governance based investment approach. In a nutshell it is about avoiding or reducing investments in companies that score poorly on these parameters and increasing the same in companies that do well on them. For example, a company that runs several coal-fired power plants is likely to score negatively … [Read more…]
Fund management is often consider in much higher regard than it really deserves. This is especially true of large-cap core equity funds. Most of these funds are ‘closet index funds’ . Which means their portfolio weights for stocks are fairly close to that in the benchmark equity indices. And yet, in recent years, they have … [Read more…]
At the start of 2021, the real estate industry has a lot to mull over. Companies are grappling with work-from-home policies and the role of the modern office. Investors are contending with not only a global economic downturn, but the sweeping cultural shifts influencing how we shop, work and spend our free time. As results … [Read more…]