Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's SPJIMR
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Sustainability-Linked Loans: A primer for CFOs
Sustainability-Linked Loans (SLLs) allow CFOs flexibility around fund deployments, provide liquidity, and further opportunities to diversify the lender base while ensuring a good alignment of interests among borrowers and lenders about ESG. Here's a basic round-up of the financial tool
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Petro-Yuan or Petro-BRICS: The need for better alternative reserve currencies to break dollar dominance
The dominance of the US dollar has been causing increasing problems for economies around the world. As a result, there is a growing undercurrent of interest in finding alternative reserve currencies. China is pushing for the yuan to become a reserve currency, but a possible BRICS+ Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) may have the edge
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Empowered rural women as silent change agents: Learnings from the Lakhpati Kisan Program of Tata Trust
The empowerment of rural women creates a ripple effect in the village ecosystem. They not only improve their personal lives but also build a transparent and empowering workplace for more women and enhance the living standard of their entire communities
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The great melting and eventual sinking: Have we reached the point of no return?
Fast-melting ice caps and glaciers have perilous and immediate dark sides and slow, excruciating social, ecological, and political pitfalls. Has the time come to explore out-of-the-box solutions to quickly slow down the effects of melting ice caps and rising sea levels? We explore
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Bringing method to the madness: A hedge fund manager and derivative trader's take on behavioural biases
Individuals are imperfect and will continue to be prone to biases. The key to success in markets is to first acknowledge the existence of biases, and then put in place processes to manage biases, especially at exits
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Elephants are also your business if you are in the plantation industry in India
To be a good corporate citizen in the plantation industry, one has to learn to co-exist with elephants. Not only to protect these magnificent creatures but also to develop the confidence amongst the workforce to work without the fear of elephant attack—a prerequisite to business profitability
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Arresting rupee volatility: RBI's policy conundrum
It is a difficult road ahead for RBI in these choppy international waters with a highly volatile exchange rate primarily affected by exogenous factors. RBI must sail through these troubled waters unscathed and bring the Indian economy out of its currency pangs
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Is ESG at the risk of becoming a smokescreen?
The world seems headed towards an inflexion point, where a lot of experts are undertaking well-meant ESG initiatives to reverse climate risk, while another set criticizes ESG as being lopsided and often a smokescreen enabled by practices such as greenwashing
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How we ended up with seventy-five years of unequal education
Will we take this opportunity of India at 75 and reflect and allow education to become an instrument of social change or make some of us feel disheartened again after 25 years about 100 years of unequal education?
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Should you invest in the stock market right now?
Geopolitical conflict, rising inflation, rising oil prices, and the surge of Covid-19 in China have played a part in enhancing the volatility of the stock markets across the world. Dr Hemant Manuj - Associate Professor, Finance at Bhavan's SPJIMR checks the historic trends to figure out the next course of action
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The curious case study of Zerodha's blue ocean strategy
Founded by Nithin Kamath, the online discount brokerage company has changed the dynamics of retail stock investment in India. Here's a look at how the blue ocean strategy worked and what it needs to do to face new challengers