IWF News and Press, iShares Russell 1000 Growth From 01/21/23

Summary ClearBridge is a leading global asset manager committed to active management. Research-based stock selection guides our investment approach, with our strategies reflecting the highest-conviction ideas of our portfolio managers. The Aggressive Growth Strategy follows a focused, h...

Summary For the twelfth straight month, mutual fund investors were net redeemers of fund assets, withdrawing $94.1 billion from conventional funds for December. Fixed-income funds (-$53.0 billion) witnessed net outflows for the fourth consecutive month, while money market funds (+$86.9 ...

Summary Investors were net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs) for the third week in a row, injecting a net $2.3 billion for the Refinitiv Lipper fund-flows week ended Jan 11. Equity ETFs experienced net inflows for the second week in three, attrac...

Summary US Large Cap stocks are still in a short-term downtrend but the long-term uptrend is intact. International Large Cap stocks are in a short-term uptrend versus US Large Cap. The trend has been driven by the falling dollar. US Large Cap value is in a short-term uptrend versus ...

Summary The reflation trend appears to be peaking, based on the ratio for an inflation-indexed Treasuries ETF vs. nominal Treasuries. Within the US equities market, risk-off continues to show strong persistence in terms of the broad market vs. low-volatility stocks. US value stocks ...

Summary 2022 was a year to forget, while most believe 2023 will begin with the same issues that took the equity and bond markets well into bear market territory last year. That is, a hawkish Federal Reserve that doesn't want to let up on strangling inflation into submission while draini...

Summary Global equities closed out their worst year since the 2008 financial crisis as central banks launched increasingly aggressive efforts to bring rampant inflation under control. Much of the US’s underperformance versus its peers is an outgrowth of its much larger exposure t...

Summary For 40 years, steadily declining inflation and interest rates buoyed equity returns. That changed abruptly last year. Investors must now adjust expectations to a new macroeconomic and market landscape that will require a fresh mindset to reach long-term goals. By...

Summary The top two mega themes in terms of global net inflows in 2022 were Climate Change-related themes and Big Data. The largest net outflows came from tech-heavy themes, led by Robotics & Automation. 2023 may bring a return to more normal markets driven by economics rather t...

Summary iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF provides risk exposure to 1000 mid-to-large cap US growth firms. Commonly a component of capital markets that leads general market upside | downside. 2022 has been a very tough very for any investor hiding in the Russell group of indices. ...