IWF News and Press, iShares Russell 1000 Growth From 02/27/23

Summary FNDX holds 700+ U.S. large-cap stocks weighted by leverage-adjusted sales, retained operating cash flow, and shareholder yield. Its expense ratio is 0.25% and the ETF has $10 billion in assets. I prefer forward-looking metrics, but FNDX trades at 17.79x forward earnings and is w...

Summary Cathie Wood and her ARK Investment Management have just turned their backs on their worst year of performance since the inception of the investing firm. The market continued to systematically dissect any leftover enthusiasm in the growth and technology space, significantly hurti...

Summary FBCG is a semi-transparent actively managed large-cap growth ETF offered by Fidelity. Fees are 0.59% and the ETF has $447 million in assets under management. The strategy screens for the highest-growth blue-chip stocks and has a 3-5% growth edge over its benchmark, the Russell 1...

Summary The forward 12-month EPS is a time-weighted average between FY1 (2023) and FY2 (2024). During the height of the pandemic, we saw aggressive downgrades in EPS estimates during March-June 2020 as shown in the 2020, 2021 , and 2022 worm. Both the Russell 1000 and Russell 1000 G...

Summary 2022 was a year where, suddenly, the value style of investing dramatically outperformed the growth style. Sector exposure is a detail useful to help in characterizing different index exposures. The S&P 500 Growth Index added Energy sector exposure due to strong price mom...

Summary We likely experienced peak rates of inflation during the fourth quarter of 2022, and as price increases abate, the coming months may bring the end of the central-bank tightening. However, we believe inflation is likely to remain above the historically low levels experienced duri...

Summary During the fund flows week ended Feb. 1, 2023, investors were overall net redeemers of fund assets (including both conventional funds and ETFs) for the first week in six, removing a net of $10.7 billion. Exchange-traded equity funds recorded $4.6 billion in weekly net inflows, m...

Summary The Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting. The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late. It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control ...

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 Appreciation Strategy seeks to balance upside r...

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...