LCTU News and Press, BlackRock U.S. Carbon Transition Readiness ETF From 07/27/21

The industry is now seeing an expansion in data-driven practices, with new ESG and climate datasets emerging and becoming mainstream. We explore what climate risk metrics are and how they are used today. As a relatively new area of risk analysis, climate data is still developing; cons...

For Q2 2021, the average equity fund and taxable fixed income fund posted a 6.36% and 1.55% return, respectively. Nonetheless, in a quasi-flight to safety and continued search for yield, bond investors pushed the 10-year Treasury yield down 29 basis points (bps) for Q2 to 1.45%. L...

For Q2 2021, the average equity fund and taxable fixed income fund posted a 6.36% and 1.55% return, respectively. TNA in the conventional funds business rose 5.19%, climbing $1.306 trillion from Q1 2021 to just a little less than $26.5 trillion for Q2 2021. The short-/intermediate...

We’ve moved past the early-cycle environment that predominated risk taking in 2020, post the pandemic lows, and we’re moving really into a mid-cycle environment, which tends to be constructive for risk. This mid-cycle environment is still going to be expansionary, albeit...

For many years, divestment has been seen as the fastest, most effective way to lower a portfolio’s carbon footprint - and many universities and affiliated foundations continue to grapple with the question of whether to divest or not. Materiality is the weighting of ESG characte...

Sustainable investing based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors has quickly become central to how we invest. To better understand the major challenges and opportunities in the ESG market, the Index Industry Association (IIA) set out to assess how asset managers perce...

I do believe disclosures are improving dramatically and we’re beginning to see a real transformation in the corporate world as more and more companies commit to net-zero plans. Divesting, whether done independently or mandated by a court, might move an individual company closer...

As the Sustainable Investment landscape evolves, it has become clear that, while individual stocks may be excluded or underweighted for engagement purposes, portfolio-level attributes such as carbon emission reductions and green revenue uplifts must be explicitly targeted and reported. ...

According to the paper written by Chris Berkouwer, a Robeco equity analyst, ESG was responsible for 20% of the outperformance of a Robeco fund over a period of three years. In illustrating the positive effects of ESG, Berkouwer first looks at Linde plc, the Ireland-domiciled chemical ...

I worry that the war on climate change may cause a pinch in the oil markets. While I can understand the concern, it may be that the speed of the push to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is laying the groundwork for a mismatch between oil supply and demand in coming years. The seeds...