EMXF News and Press, iShares ESG Advanced MSCI EM ETF From 10/01/22

Summary Today’s extremely competitive environment requires diverse thinking and problem solving to find great opportunities. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices create a platform for differentiation for firm performance and add to an asset manager’s botto...

Summary As the next phase of SFDR disclosure begins, January 2023 marks an important milestone in the regulation of ESG in the EU. Most asset managers and other buy-side firms have been busy preparing for SFDR reporting for many months. One of the big challenges of SFDR is dat...

Summary Climate change, if left unchecked, will likely have such widespread implications that it could threaten the stability of the global financial system. Tracking the reality of the environmental implications will be critical to companies mitigating risk and capitalizing on op...

Summary Mining can have adverse environmental consequences. It often requires large surface areas, which can damage biodiversity, and processing can cause high emissions as well as water and soil pollution. Host communities of the natural resource sector are vulnerable to potentia...

Summary It is hard to determine sometimes what causes markets to move as they do. Take last Friday’s stock market selloff. The widely cited “reason” for the selloff was Jerome Powell’s speech at the Fed’s Jackson Hole Symposium. Of the major ...

A climate mitigation policy mix of carbon taxes, green subsidies, and infrastructure investment could reduce global balances by a quarter by 2027. Global interest rates are also likely to fall in the longer term because of the decline in investment in fossil fuels, following an initia...

With inflation at multi-decade highs in many countries and pressures broadening beyond food and energy prices, policymakers have pivoted toward tighter policy. Stable prices are a crucial prerequisite for sustained economic growth. The high uncertainty clouding the economic and in...

July was the highest revenue generating month of 2022. The US hard to borrow equity market pushes revenues higher. Fixed income continues to see strong demand. Corporate bonds are in for an impressive 2022. Global securities finance revenues totalled $1.215 bln, ...

After months of battering, global equity markets enjoyed a reprieve in July, lifted by hopes that worsening economic signals and falling commodity prices might give central banks, led by the Fed, some leeway to dial back their tightening campaigns. Despite their recent outperformance,...

Global economic growth slowed to a crawl in July, according to the latest PMI survey data, led by the developed world falling into contraction for the first time in two years. Emerging market growth as a whole consequently remained broadly resilient at one of the fastest rates seen ov...