Virtual Global Investor Roundtable 2020:
- Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi chaired Virtual Global Investor Roundtable on 05 November 2020. The VGIR was organized by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, and National Investment and Infrastructure Fund. It was an exclusive dialogue between leading global institutional investors, Indian business leaders and the highest decision makers from the Government of India and Financial Market Regulators.
The Roundtable was witnessed participation from twenty of the world’s largest pension and sovereign wealth funds with a total Assets Under Management of about US$6 trillion. These global institutional investors represented key regions includes the US, Europe, Canada, Korea, Japan, Middle East, Australia, and Singapore.
VGIR 2020 was focused on discussions around India’s economic and investment outlook, structural reforms and the government’s vision for the path to a USD 5 trillion economy.
Addressing the roundtable, Prime Minister said India offers the investors Democracy, Demography, Demand as well as Diversity & expressed that India has an ambitious plan to invest $ 1.5 trillion under the National Infrastructure Pipeline. He also said investors are moving towards companies which have a high Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) score.