EMXF News and Press, iShares ESG Advanced MSCI EM ETF From 12/12/21

Chinese authorities recently presented a draft plan to reduce heavy metal emissions by 5% by 2025. China will accelerate the transfer of professional electroplating companies to special industrial parks, the Global Times reported. Environment pollution has been troubling China for...

Global economic growth will be slower but still above trend in 2022. This forecast should allow equities to outperform bonds. Inflation has yet to peak, but it will likely decline over the year and as a result any central bank tightening will be modest. 2021 was a year of rebound ...

It's often thought that you need active engagement with companies from a shareholder perspective to drive change. COP26 is hugely important because it brings together so many different interests at the government level, at a corporate level and NGO level, standard-setting levels. ...

We're looking now at a much more uncertain, more volatile and a more uneven environment for both growth and inflation. What's driving this is the fact that there is a digital transformation, a green transformation and a social transformation going on. Despite all the uncertainty, ...

Our key lessons of 2021: Stay anchored to your framework in the unique restart; appreciate the net-zero journey has started; and have courage of conviction. Markets switched to risk-off mode last week as the Omicron virus strain spread globally and the Fed warned of inflation risks an...

The US rebound from the Q3 slowdown is in full bloom. The economy certainly looks like it is on solid ground right now. So, why in the world are bonds rallying? The 10-year Treasury yield fell 10 basis points on Friday after the payroll report. The movements in bond markets today ...

The decade after the Great Financial Crisis of 2007–09 brought significant changes in the volume and composition of capital flows in the global economy. This article considers the implications of such a metamorphosis of finance for capital flows to emerging market economies. ...

November’s modest uptick in volatility, driven by a recalibration of the market’s macroeconomic expectations, could be a sign of things to come. On the surface, November may have appeared to be another month of quiet, range-bound fixed income markets. While we have n...

At the UN’s recent COP26 climate summit, world leaders made ambitious pledges to combat global warming but also appeared more concerned than ever of the hard work ahead. While countries commit to goals, many quality companies are already reducing carbon-emissions. In our vi...

The Fed confirmed that it will taper its asset purchase program starting later in November, while the Bank of England (BOE) fell just short of raising rates at its November meeting. 55% of managers expect inflation in the U.S. for the next 12 months to stand between 2.26% and 2.75%, w...