EFIV News and Press, SPDR S&P 500 ESG From 08/22/23

2023-08-22 08:30:00 ET Summary Expectation for the S&P 500 Index's future earnings per share through the end of 2023 has decreased from $203.50 to $200.27. Standard & Poor's projections through the end of 2024 also showed a small decline in the index's earnings per share. ...

2023-08-21 06:45:00 ET Summary After making a new 2023 high on July 31, the market is now in the process of consolidating its gains and expanding its participation. The best performer last week was Volatility, as investors looked for ways to protect their gains from further downsi...

2023-08-15 21:41:00 ET Summary The U.S. equity market in 2023 has been driven by the disproportionate outperformance of large cap, growth, and technology-oriented stocks, leading to a significant concentration of market returns. The Large-Cap Growth and technology-oriented segment...

2023-08-14 13:30:00 ET Summary After making a new 2023 high on July 31, the market is now in the process of consolidating its gains and expanding its participation. The Death Cross ended on February 2, 2023. We are now in a Golden Cross configuration, with the 50-day above the 200...

2023-08-12 04:49:00 ET Summary In just the last decade, the S&P 500 leaderboard has changed dramatically. Today, it is dominated by technology. Autos themselves have moved from an expensive, commodity-powered, hard-asset mode of transport to a software-driven, services-deliver...

2023-08-10 09:15:00 ET Summary Matrix Asset Advisors is a Value-Driven asset management company. Our investment philosophy and process has allowed us to build a cohesive team of key investment professionals, enabling us to be both opportunistic and responsive. The S&P 500 cont...

2023-08-08 12:01:00 ET Summary Sustainable equity funds tend to shy away from sectors and companies that are deemed to be controversial. Not surprisingly, companies with high CO2 emissions are found in sectors such as energy, materials and utilities. Investing in ESG improvers...

2023-08-08 00:01:00 ET Summary The tough part to the CPI / PPI data the last 18 months, is that the “compares” for the CPI get tougher as we move through 2023, since CPI inflation peaked in June ’22. One of the problems with hyper-focus on any particular set o...

2023-07-26 22:39:00 ET Summary Q2 2023 was a more favorable environment for Emerging Markets, Europe, Australia and Real Assets managers. There was no single style factor that dominated returns across markets, with country and sector positioning being more relevant. Managers a...

2023-07-26 04:34:00 ET Summary Investors who seek defensive equity portfolios might think they need to sacrifice long-term return potential to reduce volatility. Our research suggests that S&P 500 stocks segregated into the highest quintile for QSP characteristics fared relati...