IWF News and Press, iShares Russell 1000 Growth From 05/05/23

2023-05-05 15:26:44 ET Summary VONG tracks the Russell 1000 Growth Index and incorporates forward-looking earnings estimates into its screens. Its expense ratio is 0.08% and VONG has $11 billion in AUM. VONG is rarely a top-performer. Instead, VONG consistently ranks in the second...

2023-05-04 02:44:00 ET Summary 2023 has smashed all previous U.S. large-cap stock-market extremes including those of 2021 and 2022. Regardless of whether there is a soft landing or not, current valuations especially for the largest U.S. stocks aren't compatible with contracting ec...

2023-05-03 08:03:49 ET Actively managed funds faced a tough month in April, with only 40% of those tracked by BofA outperforming their benchmarks ( SPY ) ( IWB ) ( IWF ) ( IWD ). The 60% underperformed by a median of -0.29%, BofA's global quant strategy team said in a no...

2023-04-26 22:55:00 ET Summary After taking a back seat to various flavors of small-cap and value factors earlier in 2023, the large-company growth risk factor is again leading the horse race, based on year-to-date returns for a set of ETF proxies through yesterday’s close (Apr...

2023-04-23 07:41:00 ET Summary The sudden collapse of two US regional banks and the forced acquisition of Credit Suisse in Europe introduced a third dimension to the existing policy dilemma of balancing inflation and growth objectives: financial stability. In the weeks since banki...

2023-04-23 06:48:00 ET Summary The sources of the immense water pressure causing cracks in our economy are high inflation, leading to high-interest rates and too much debt. Our long-term view on elevated inflation is based on structural supply and demand imbalances, most notably i...

2023-04-11 13:18:35 ET Summary The Fed was quick to keep rates near zero when the pandemic struck. However, it made a mistake to see inflation as transitory and kept rates low for too long. As a result, the Fed needed to raise rates at an aggressive pace and magnitude to keep infl...

2023-04-08 08:00:00 ET Summary SCHG is one of the top-performing large-cap growth ETFs over the last decade. With a 0.04% expense ratio, it's likely on your short-list. This article evaluates SCHG's fundamentals against other popular alternatives like VUG, SPYG, IWF, and QQQ. ...

2023-03-29 13:40:06 ET While the last couple years have seen growth stocks get punished, dragged down by rising interest rates and changing investor tastes following the runup that more speculative investments saw earlier in the 2020s. Still, market participants are still searching for ...

2023-03-29 03:30:00 ET Summary While US large cap equity indexes have generally fared well over the past five years, the Russell 1000 Invesco Dynamic Multifactor Index [RB1] has posted standout returns. The Russell 1000 Index — an unbiased barometer for the broad US large c...