EAGG News and Press, iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond From 09/30/22

Summary 2022 has been the worst year for bonds since 1976. Bonds are an attractive place to be. Investors can look to allocate across fixed income depending on their individual risk appetite. What the markets are looking at now is the pressure on corporate profitability. ...

Summary The Federal Reserve has changed its angle of attack quite dramatically, in an attempt to battle surprisingly and stubbornly high inflation. The challenge will be to continue making progress on the inflation front without sending the labor market into a nosedive. The mo...

Summary Income investors seeking to boost yields often find themselves depending on higher-yielding investments such as bank loans, high-yield bonds and dividend-paying equities. The key to an efficient income portfolio is selecting the most impactful building blocks and assemblin...

Summary New York Climate Week acknowledged the challenges the energy crisis has brought but emphasised the importance of rolling out clean energy faster under this context. Businesses need to think long-term, target short-term, disclose quality sustainability data, collaborate to ...

Summary Interest rate risk has become one of the key worries of the global investors, as central banks struggle to keep inflation in check. Commentators have already raised the issue that rising rates will impact the funding of climate plans and central banks should consider clima...

Summary As comments from heads of central banks go, yesterday’s press conference was relatively lucid. In the case of deciding when the bond market writ large bottoms and begins an extended rise, a fourth factor comes into play: investor sentiment. As yields rise and in...

Summary As we start the third week of September, with the US Fed’s much-telegraphed rate hike on Wednesday (+.75 with some 30% betting odds of a full percent!), markets are peaked. To date, Canada’s TSX -13% is just a quarter through the price correction experienced ...

Summary Stocks and bonds and commodities continued to trade and move around in price but there was no news to which those movements could be attributed. Most of what passes for news, the things people credit with moving markets on a day-to-day or week-to-week basis, is nothing mor...

Summary Green bonds have gained a reputation for providing better downside mitigation than their conventional peers. But in this year’s market downturn, green bonds’ defensive performance patterns were mixed. We believe that the greater performance dispersion we&...

Summary In “normal” times, bonds would be expected to thrive in a weakening economy. But this year, that old truism has been thrown out the window. The NASDAQ is taking its cue from the long bond yield. It’s down 23%, and the S&P 500 Growth index is tracki...