SUSA News and Press, iShares MSCI USA ESG Select From 07/12/20

By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist The ripple effects of COVID-19 are impacting a wide variety of markets, and investors have lots of questions. Among them: Will production facilities leave China for other markets? What fixed income opportunities have been created by ce...

By Detlef Glow The growth of sustainable investing is constantly accelerating and can be seen as one of the most important growth drivers for the fund industry over the next few years. From my point of view, we may reach the breaking point where the majority of assets are managed with a su...

This short article by Fong Yee Chan, Senior Product Manager, Sustainable Investing at FTSE Russell considers the two important lessons that the Covid-19 pandemic is teaching us that have applicability to climate change. Firstly, it is important to act upon high probability and high impact risk...

More than ever, investors recognize the risks and opportunities associated with the low carbon transition and are incorporating a wider set of considerations, including carbon, green revenues and environmental, social and governance ((ESG)) assessments issues into their decision making. It i...

By Nicholas Bucklin, CFA, Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income; Daniel Workman, CFA, Vice President, Portfolio Manager Franklin Templeton Fixed Income In the municipal bond market, the issuance of green bonds has provided an attractive solution for investors ...

By Julie Moret, Head of ESG, Franklin Templeton Investments Dislocations resulting from the pandemic shine a light on environmental, social and governance ((ESG)) issues, which can be used as an additional tool to identify leading companies from the laggards, according to Franklin Templet...

Get the ins and outs of green bonds in this two-part series. Let's start with the basics. A green bond is a type of fixed-income instrument that specifically and solely dedicates its proceeds to financing new or existing projects that advance environmental objectives . Issuers set the qua...

By Robert Milano, Ryan Oden Transcript: Robert Milano: Ryan, one topic that's coming up more and more frequently is ESG, or environmental, social and governance, considerations and how they fit into the investment process. There are a number of different ways that you can integrat...

By Payal Lakhani At a Glance The S&P 500 ESG Index has outperformed the benchmark S&P 500 over the past year The ESG Index rebalanced in May, and gives higher weighting to the technology sector than the S&P 500 Over the past year, the S&P 500 ESG Index exhibited ...

By Kurt Reiman, Daniel Donato The economic outage to contain the spread of COVID-19 has forced companies and whole industries to rapidly adapt to sharp falls in demand and a more uncertain future. The emergency response to the pandemic has led many of us to reassess how we lead our daily l...