COVID-19 and its impact on select ESG mutual funds.

Purpose-The main objective of the paper is to study the covid-19 impact on the ESG mutual funds. Approach-based on the review of literature, the current study deals with the recently added ESG centric mutual funds and its performance in covid-19 situations, and this study tries to finds out the comparative study on Equity mutual funds with ESG mutual funds, using the portfolio performance measures, Findings-the study finds that the measured (like Sharpe, Jenson's alpha, Treynor ratio's) portfolio performance of both ESG and Equity mutual funds which is having a risk-free rate and adjusted returns compared to equity mutual funds. Originality-the study finds that comparative study between equity and ESG mutual funds has identified that there is an impact of covid-19 on Equity funds is more than ESG funds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]