EMSG News and Press, Xtrackers MSCI Emerging Markets ESG Leaders Equity From 02/21/20

Video Transcript Paul Murdock : Green bond issuance is on the rise in markets around the globe. While supernationals like the World Bank may have been the initial driving force behind green bonds, an uptick in issuance by corporations and agencies is helping green bonds go mainstream...

By J. Patrick Bradley Introduction Across the global economy, Environmental, Social, and Governance ((ESG)) factors are becoming more important and better integrated into the activities of governments, investment managers, plan sponsors, consultants, and industry. I've written on this t...

Geopolitical Events Support Gold Gold started the year driven by risks associated with geopolitical events. On January 3, a U.S. drone attack on an Iranian general in Iraq led to a retaliatory strike by Iran on a U.S.-Iraq military base on January 8. This enabled gold to briefly reach the $1...

I've previously discussed ESG investing and how investing in what you view as subjective morality is actually nothing more than old school stock picking. I get it - we want to do what's right and make money. That's all well and good, but as it pertains to secondary markets and stock picking ...

By Detlef Glow With the announcement that BlackRock will make sustainability its new standard for investing, the debate about ESG integration has reached a new level. Even as there has been a lot of talk about the integration of ESG criteria before, the self-declaration of the largest asse...

Mary-Catherine Lader: Climate change will impact more than just the environment. It's also going to have a lasting impact on global economic growth and prosperity, particularly as more and more investors around the world demand more of the companies they invest in and take action like moving...

By Detlef Glow ESG has become very popular with investors and fund promoters in 2019, and one can also expect that it will be a hot topic for the European investment industry in 2020. Therefore, we can expect to witness a lot of talk around initiatives from asset managers to integrate sust...

By Andre Bertolotti, CFA Andre Bertolotti and Jaime Maihuire Irigoyen from BlackRock Sustainable Investing share a first-of-a-kind "materiality matrix" showing which ESG characteristics appear most financially relevant across various global credit industries. Sustainable investing - th...

By Brian Deese, Ashley Schulten, Scott Thiel, Andre Bertolotti The equity market has played an early role in sustainable investing, while bond markets have lagged in data, tools and insights. But that's changing fast, as we detail in a new publication: Sustainability: the bond that endur...

There are fads in investing. They eventually go away. Remember ARM funds? The Americus Trusts? (Neat idea, killed by a legal change). The nifty fifty? Hot industries that produce a lot of IPOs? I also think cryptocurrencies are a fad, and also factor and volatility investing, at least in ter...