ESGU News and Press, iShares ESG MSCI USA ETF From 12/17/21

Momentum for the U.S. Responsible Investing industry picked up in January when President Joe Biden signed executive orders to re-enter into the Paris Climate Agreement. In 2021 through October month-end, there were 110 equity and fixed income funds that launched focused on Responsible...

Not all Net Zero targets are created equal. Depending on historical and current carbon emissions, some are more ambitious than others. On average, we find that the current Net Zero targets will, if met, collectively deliver a global temperature rise of 2.1°C, well above the 1.5&#...

Twenty years ago, investors mocked the launch of the first ESG focused index called FTSE4Good. Two decades later, interest in ESG indices is driving some of the biggest allocations of capital today. FTSE Russell Americas Head of Sustainable Investment Tony Campos discusses what ha...

The ESGV ETF invests in U.S. equities while excluding certain types of companies and industries through ESG filters. We believe environmental, social, and governance issues work as a qualitative screen on companies that go beyond financial metrics. ESGV has impressively outperform...

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...

$100 Billion has flowed into ESG investing but these focused strategies have not made real change in the underlying issues. Fund performance has not been much different than the broad market. The premium charged for an ESG strategy appears to be a windfall for the issuers, leaving...

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...

ESG-themed ETFs and ETPs have amassed a record $130B in net inflows worldwide year to date -- 49% greater than their total inflows for all of 2020, new data from market tracker ETFGI shows. The consulting firm found that ESG funds garnered $11.25B of inflows worl...