ESGU News and Press, iShares ESG MSCI USA ETF From 05/16/23

2023-05-16 23:35:00 ET Summary 2023 is now continuing that past pattern of growth and large-cap growth relative performance. If you look at the 10 and 15-year annualized returns across all the US equity asset classes, even straight value vs. growth, the returns are not all that ap...

2023-05-09 12:10:22 ET The market for ESG-focused exchange traded funds has shrunk in 2023, with fewer launches and more fund closures within the category. Through the first quarter of 2023, Wall Street saw the launch of 58 ETFs within the category designated as "environmental, social a...

2023-05-04 02:44:00 ET Summary 2023 has smashed all previous U.S. large-cap stock-market extremes including those of 2021 and 2022. Regardless of whether there is a soft landing or not, current valuations especially for the largest U.S. stocks aren't compatible with contracting ec...

2023-04-26 22:55:00 ET Summary After taking a back seat to various flavors of small-cap and value factors earlier in 2023, the large-company growth risk factor is again leading the horse race, based on year-to-date returns for a set of ETF proxies through yesterday’s close (Apr...

2023-04-26 03:00:00 ET Summary With social trends and new legislation in the spotlight, investors can’t afford to ignore the risks to companies and investment performance. Unlike carbon footprints and governance standards, which can be easily compared across companies or se...

2023-04-23 07:41:00 ET Summary The sudden collapse of two US regional banks and the forced acquisition of Credit Suisse in Europe introduced a third dimension to the existing policy dilemma of balancing inflation and growth objectives: financial stability. In the weeks since banki...

2023-04-18 01:35:00 ET Summary For the third month in a row, mutual fund investors were net purchasers of fund assets, injecting $286.4 billion into conventional funds for March. Fixed income funds (-$23.3 billion) witnessed net outflows for the first month in three, while money m...

2023-04-13 03:35:00 ET Summary Trading activity on the Tradeweb European ETF marketplace reached EUR 59.2 billion in March, while the proportion of transactions processed via Tradeweb’s Automated Intelligent Execution (AiEX) tool was 82.7%. Fixed income and commodity-based ...

2023-04-03 09:07:03 ET As the first quarter of the 2023 trading year concluded, Wall Street's top 10 exchange traded fund inflow leaders together amassed $49.38B while the broader market indices tracked higher. Of the Q1 inflow leaders, multiple U.S. Treasury funds found themselves...

2023-04-01 06:35:00 ET Summary ESG funds, including both mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, have grown into a $400 billion market in the United States alone. The first step in testing whether ESG funds deliver higher ESG scores is to determine what to compare them against. ...