ESGW News and Press, Columbia Sustainable Global Equity Income ETF Columbia ETF Trust I From 02/23/20

Following a bumpy 2019 for global growth, we see economic momentum recovering in 2020. While the global health crisis adds uncertainty to the economic outlook, we believe the economic and market risks will be temporary. With the cycle extended and recession risks reduced, we favor equities ove...

Coronavirus cases in China surpassed 76,000. Deaths have reached 2,345. The number of new cases has slowed markedly, perhaps owing to repeated changes in the methodology of counting infections. Developments elsewhere are less encouraging. Plans have been drawn to add 19 temporary hospitals in ...

The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), popularly known as 'coronavirus' has caused widespread concern since being identified in Wuhan, China in late December. The outbreak has been characterised by misinformation and differing precautionary actions taken internationally but has importantly hig...

By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist Weekly Market Compass: Companies issue warnings that the epidemic will impact their revenue and earnings. The floodgates are opening. Companies are beginning to warn that the coronavirus outbreak will impact earnings, and stocks ha...

The market may very well ignore it as a onetime problem but debts need to be paid and there is a large amount of debt needing to be rolled over in the next 24 months. Companies have taken on debt and used it to buy back corporate stock. They may have painted themselves into a corner. Never b...

The COVID-19 coronavirus has the world's business system in a spin. Economists tend to downplay it as not terribly big in comparison to the huge global economy. For specific families, of course, it's a tragedy. But the mild economic consequences of economists' back-of-the-envelope economic ana...

The economic risks of the coronavirus As Macmillan said, it's "Events, dear boy, events" which disrupt political plans. The same is true of the best laid investment plans - the outside world goes and does something not included in our planning and disrupts what was intended. The big wild car...

Today, Columbia Sustainable Global Equity Income ETF (NYSE Arca: ESGW ) announced that it will close and liquidate its assets on or about March 26, 2020, as further discussed below. The last date for authorized participants to transact in creation units of Columbia Sustainable Global Equ...

This article posits that the spread of the coronavirus coincides with the downturn in the global credit cycle, with potentially catastrophic results. At the time of writing, analysts are still trying to get to grips with the virus's economic impact and they commonly express the hope that after...

By Hemant Baijal, Head of Multi-Sector Portfolio Management, Global Debt Senior Portfolio Manager ; Meral Karasulu, PhD, Director of Fixed Income Research, Global Debt Team ; Claudia Castro, PhD, Director, Fixed Income Research ; Turgut Kisinbay, PhD, Director of Fixed Incom...