LCTU News and Press, BlackRock U.S. Carbon Transition Readiness ETF From 02/10/22

There’s an important disconnect between stocks and bonds today. Specially, I am looking at two fundamental indicators for evaluating long-term interest rates. The first is the performance of small cap stocks relative to large caps. Typically, this ratio has moved in concert wit...

The problem is, in fearing volatility, most asset managers and their algorithms are now positioning themselves to perform closer to the Dow 30 or S&P 500 Indices. Some capital markets traders may think risk only refers to short-term volatility, but that is not true. When in a ...

Jan van Eck, CEO of VanEck, discusses his thoughts on the top themes to watch going into 2022. The world economy came into 2021 like a car going 200 miles an hour, which fueled by the biggest stimulus we'd gotten since World War II. The Fed is sort of the cause of the uncertainty ...

Fueled by climate change and other environmental concerns, ESG-focused funds reached $3.9 trillion in AUM at the end of September 2021. As for the operational environment, most wind turbine blades are made of nonrecyclable composites. Green and renewable companies are attracting t...

COP26 was expected to deliver significant pledges to limit global warming to 1.5c degrees above pre-industrial levels. If national governments fail to meet their targets, companies will feel the pressure to pick up the slack. Our active ownership program has strategic focus areas ...

Momentum for the U.S. Responsible Investing industry picked up in January when President Joe Biden signed executive orders to re-enter into the Paris Climate Agreement. In 2021 through October month-end, there were 110 equity and fixed income funds that launched focused on Responsible...

Not all Net Zero targets are created equal. Depending on historical and current carbon emissions, some are more ambitious than others. On average, we find that the current Net Zero targets will, if met, collectively deliver a global temperature rise of 2.1°C, well above the 1.5&#...

Twenty years ago, investors mocked the launch of the first ESG focused index called FTSE4Good. Two decades later, interest in ESG indices is driving some of the biggest allocations of capital today. FTSE Russell Americas Head of Sustainable Investment Tony Campos discusses what ha...

It's often thought that you need active engagement with companies from a shareholder perspective to drive change. COP26 is hugely important because it brings together so many different interests at the government level, at a corporate level and NGO level, standard-setting levels. ...

We're looking now at a much more uncertain, more volatile and a more uneven environment for both growth and inflation. What's driving this is the fact that there is a digital transformation, a green transformation and a social transformation going on. Despite all the uncertainty, ...