What is ESG Investing?

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…]

Should you add gold to your portfolio and what are the different options?

In a market that has dramatic swings from one day to the next, investors must learn ways to diversify their portfolios that will win in any market. With the Covid-19 pandemic battering world markets, equity investors are suffering. The spike in bond yields has resulted in losses to investors of debt instruments such as debt … [Read more…]