
Hear the drumbeat, it is green
23 December 2020, Mumbai: Company boards and managements have been delivering a jeremiad, lambasting regulators for asking them for too...
Dual-Class Shares will weaken the corporate governance ecosystem in India
SEBI’s decision to allow companies to issue shares with differential voting rights attempts to facilitate promoters of new-age companies...

Kneeling to ‘Royalty’?
SEBI’s decision to delay the implementation of shareholder approval for royalty payments is yet another tug-of-war between the market...


75 companies can distribute almost Rs.1.1 trillion more
Based on FY18 financial statements of the BSE 500 constituents, IiAS’ study this year identifies 75 that can return cash of up to Rs. 1.1...


CEO remuneration: Competition to pay more
Investors are getting increasingly concerned with CEO remuneration levels in Corporate India. A recent IiAS study reveals that median CEO...
Royalty payment: Establishing its legitimacy
Royalty payments have been a bone of serious contention, enough to bring in regulatory intervention. In most instances, royalty is a...


Political donations: A framework for corporates and boards
Given the influence policy has on the fortunes of a business, it is naïve to expect that businesses will stay away from political...


Corporate Social Responsibility: A lot more than feel-good
The Companies Act 2013 expects businesses to spend 2% of their three-year average profits on social initiatives. Even before the Act was...

Fifty shades of green: focussing on ESG and its reporting
At the Asian Corporate Governance Association annual meet in mid-November, in an audience poll, there was near unanimity that boards have...


CEO Pay: Sector Analysis (Pay Differential in key sectors)
This is the time of the year when boards are called upon to fix pay levels of its members for the coming financial year. This series on...