ESGU News and Press, iShares ESG MSCI USA ETF From 06/01/22

Energy and commodity companies are largely paid in U.S. dollars. Portfolios that focus on inflationary growth sectors are benefiting from high prices for copper, crude oil, natural gas, fertilizer, lithium, and other higher commodity prices. The median new home sales price is now ...

Stocks had a ripsnorter of a rally last week and a lot of people are pondering the question in the title over this long weekend. Sentiment is certainly negative right now by several measures. Sentiment surveys (AAII, Investor’s Intelligence, etc.) are universally negative becau...

Central banks are facing a growth-inflation trade-off. Hiking interest rates too much risks triggering a recession, while not tightening enough risks causing runaway inflation. The Fed has made it clear it is ready to dampen growth. Implication: We are neutral developed market (DM) equiti...

When we make investment decisions about assets with multi-decade horizons, our forecasts will ultimately break down. There are multiple, equally valid pathways through the transition, all with different technology mixes and varied time horizons. Social factors may drive higher emi...

As the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ecosystem evolves and the number of investors grows, ESG investments must keep pace. In the equity world, this evolution translates to index providers working to match rapidly developing ESG demands. Bloomberg Intelligence reporte...

Most ERISA plans using active management probably already have some level of ESG integration included in their plan regardless of whether an ESG policy or approach was actively adopted by the plan sponsor. Since ERISA plans are subject to Department of Labor (DOL) regulation, shifting...

Beyond the broad S&P benchmark, 45% of NASDAQ 100 stocks are already off more than 50%, which only happened as part of the larger-than-historically-average bear markets of 2000-02 and 2008-09. The last eight times the S&P 500 was down in a calendar year, bonds finished the yea...

Corporate ESG ratings do not necessarily measure a company’s impact on the Earth and society. There are no current industry or regulator standards for algorithms, metrics, data sources or results. By its nature, ESG assessment requires a forward-looking approach that static...

Strong ESG performance during the pandemic led to trillions of dollars in inflows. For those seeking wisdom instead of noise, it’s worth exploring what some of the world’s least talkative but most sophisticated investors — insurers — are saying and doing ar...

As the Environmental, Social, and Governance ESG ecosystem evolves, ESG investments must keep the pace to continue providing robust solutions to market participants. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), electric car sales more than doubled between 2020 and 2021. In tota...