Why private capital in India is ready for a resetDespite the recent downtrend, Indian private capital markets have come of age. At more than US$50 billion a year, private equity (PE) and v...
12 Mar, 2023, 06.20 PM IST
Elon Musk tweets proxy voting firms have 'far too much power'Musk's comments add to a long-running debate over whether such advisers have too much sway over corporate decision-making.
25 Jan, 2023, 12.52 AM IST
Can ESG pass the bullshitometer?For ESG investing to survive through this public, political and regulatory scrutiny, it'll have to bring uniform standards, clear the grey ...
04 Jun, 2022, 07.02 PM IST
Tesla investor John Streur says carmaker still believes in ESGJohn Streur, president of Calvert Research and Management, praised Tesla's disclosure of workforce diversity data earlier in May and said T...
24 May, 2022, 07.44 AM IST
Elon Musk's ESG attack spotlights $35 trillion industry confusionThe Tesla boss had earlier criticised the S&P Global for dropping Tesla from its flagship ESG index
20 May, 2022, 03.55 PM IST
Tesla cut from S&P 500 ESG Index, and Elon Musk tweets his furyTesla has become the most valuable auto industry company by pioneering EVs and expanding into battery storage for electric grids and solar-...
19 May, 2022, 07.20 AM IST
Tesla removed from S&P 500 ESG Index, prompting Musk pushbackEven though Tesla is contributing to reducing emissions with its electric cars, Dorn said, its issues and lack of disclosures relative to i...
18 May, 2022, 11.24 PM IST
Russian risk recalibration a wake-up call for investorsBuying into companies on the basis of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors is one of the hottest trends in the fund managemen...
10 Mar, 2022, 11.02 AM IST
Highest-ranked ESG fund in the UK is betting big on IndiaThe Stewart Investors India Subcontinent Sustainability fund returned 31.2% in the year through November according to Morningstar Inc. data...
23 Dec, 2021, 05.06 PM IST
Sustainability-oriented innovations solve both shared public problems and private customer needs: Jason JaySOIs solve both together. A Tesla car is an example. It solves the public problem of pollution by using clean energy. It also solves the pr...
10 Dec, 2021, 12.09 AM IST
Elon Musk's Bitcoin turnaround pleases some Tesla investorsThe Tesla boss' tweets, which had helped drive some of the gains in bitcoin in recent months, this week triggered a 17% slide in the value ...
15 May, 2021, 09.26 AM IST
Tesla sinks below the price at which it entered S&P500 indexThe stock dropped as much as 13% to $619 in New York, its biggest intraday decline since Sept. 8, before paring much of the loss to trade d...
23 Feb, 2021, 10.23 PM IST
Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla's carrying bitcoin's dirty baggageThe digital currency is created when high-powered computers compete against other machines to solve complex mathematical puzzles, an energy...
10 Feb, 2021, 11.25 PM IST
Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla's carrying bitcoin's dirty baggageThe digital currency is created when high-powered computers compete against other machines to solve complex mathematical puzzles, an energy...
10 Feb, 2021, 05.04 PM IST
Dot-com era stock valuations bringing bubble fear to ESG fundsWith the Nasdaq 100 trading near dot-com-era-high valuations of the early 2000s, the likes of Bank of America Corp. are floating warning ba...
26 Jan, 2021, 01.13 PM IST
Mark Mobius’ mantra: Don’t stick to a theme, be diversifiedIt is good to be diversified. We like IT and we also have companies in the consumer area, education, healthcare, says Mark Mobius.
17 Nov, 2020, 04.40 PM IST
The fund managers, the sleuths and the mystery of the missing ESGInvestor demand for companies deemed to have high ESG standards has never been higher. ESG-focused funds manage $1.1 trillion, more than do...
07 Sep, 2020, 04.02 PM IST