IAK News and Press, iShares U.S. Insurance From 04/18/23

2023-04-18 09:43:00 ET Summary Changes to the Global Industry Classification Standard adjusted the sector weights in the S&P 500. Sector futures provide a way to manage risk related to the 11 GICS sectors and gain exposure to changes impacting differing sectors of the market. ...

2023-04-17 07:30:00 ET Summary KIE tracks the S&P Insurance Select Industry Index and is one of three insurance ETFs available. Its expense ratio is 0.35% and the fund has $425 million in assets. Insurance stocks performed well last year as interest rates and margins rose...

2023-04-07 02:00:00 ET Summary We examine the genesis of the gap between bank deposits and loans. Small bank loan books represent a greater proportion of deposits relative to large banks. This is fine and quite different from Silicon Valley Bank. The outsized exposure of small...

2023-04-05 05:00:00 ET Summary Finding an effective way to address reinvestment opportunities will be crucial. Multi-sector should be more tactical, with the return objective generally expected to be positive in absolute terms over a cycle. The available sectors can be similar...

2023-04-03 05:35:00 ET Summary It's surprising to see the Financial sector with expected EPS growth for Q1 ’23 of 5.2% on expected revenue growth of 9%, especially given all the events around the banks in the last 4 weeks. While the regional banks are going to get a lot of ...

2023-04-02 03:43:00 ET Summary Bank shares plunged in the wake of the SVB meltdown, for understandable reasons, while Big Tech was off to the races, for reasons we will explore in further detail below. Stock price valuations are heavily influenced by interest rates, and a reductio...

2023-03-29 03:06:00 ET Summary We’re currently in an extraordinary environment for the P&C market. For the January 1, 2023 renewal, the market saw premiums increase 7% for insurance and as much as 50% for reinsurance. With a firmly entrenched hard market, we believe...

2023-03-29 02:22:00 ET Summary The Fed and the ECB hiked their interest rate targets over the past several days and have stated that more rate hikes will be needed. Gold is not the anti-dollar, as it is sometimes labelled. It is reasonable to think of gold as the anti-bank or ...

2023-03-28 03:28:00 ET Summary 14 constituents in the S&P 500 have been impacted by a GICS Classification change which was originally announced in December 2022. Financials saw the largest change, with 8 of these constituents move from Information Technology into Financials. ...

2023-03-27 08:00:00 ET Summary I don’t think there is a financial reason to withdraw your funds from a small bank, especially if your deposits are below the FDIC limit. The fall in interest rates due to economic growth concerns has seen investors shift back to the assets th...