IGF News and Press, iShares Global Infrastructure ETF From 04/29/21

With greater clarity on the sustainability of the economic recovery, we also saw the opportunity set across markets broaden to include sectors beyond those seen as the primary beneficiaries of an economic reopening. As expected, the recovery hasn't been smooth sailing for all, with su...

Even during normal times, the Utilities sector is anything but sexy. In most times, investors can appreciate low risk and high yield, even when it comes at the expense of growth and price appreciation potential. The problem is, we're living at a time where the only things that see...

The iShares Global Infrastructure ETF (IGF) looks to track the performance of an index of equities in the infrastructure industry, as represented by the S&P Global Infrastructure Index (“Underlying Index”). IGF invests globally in utilities, energy, and industrial co...

Infrastructure stocks are a popular way to earn income due to their relative resistance to recessions and usually high dividend yields. The Federal Reserve's policies have pushed down the yields of pretty much everything, but UTF still manages to deliver a respectable 6.9% yield. ...

On the day of his inauguration as the 46th U.S. president, Joe Biden kicked off his $2 trillion Green New Deal proposal. We believe that the incremental execution of his plans to bolster the nation’s economic recovery by fostering sustainable clean energy infrastructure development sho...

The iShares Global Infrastructure ETF invests globally in utilities, energy, and industrial companies. The ETF has underperformed some of its peers. The sector as a whole has underperformed the market overall. IGF is certainly a viable ETF to take advantage of a recovery in the gl...

Why not all infrastructure is made equal. Opportunities and strategies in infrastructure investing. Finding resilience in the pandemic through global infrastructure. For further details see: Finding Resilience: Investing In Global Infrastructure

by Nick Langley, Portfolio Manager The COVID-19 pandemic has meaningfully hit most countries in the world, bringing with it a toll on human lives and livelihoods. As governments move to mitigate the public health crisis and support economies through monetary and fiscal policy, many are a...

CNBC's Jim Cramer was recently quoted as saying " this should be the beginning of the end for sector ETFs ". While I agree with Todd Rosenbluth's initial response on Twitter , I felt it important to lay out a few facts and lists of sector ETFs highlighting why their importance to investors wi...

The Trump administration announces long-awaited proposed changes to the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act, in what could be its most significant deregulatory action. More news on: Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF, Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF, Industrial Select Sector SPDR E...