SUSC News and Press, iShares ESG USD Corporate Bond ETF From 07/01/21

MSCI US REIT Index rallied 2.7% in June, which marks an impressive run of eight consecutive monthly increases. The Russell 3000 Index jumped 2.5% in June, the fifth straight monthly advance. Comparing GMI to US stocks and bonds shows that global asset allocation remains competitiv...

Faced with higher inflation numbers, the Federal Reserve has begun to create more meaningful parameters around its evolving stance on monetary policy. Although the changes could be less dramatic than many expect, we believe that investors should be prepared for higher market volatilit...

Risk-adjusted performance for the Global Market Index (GMI) continued to tick higher in May. GMI’s Sharpe ratio — a measure of risk-adjusted return – rose to 0.82 on a trailing 10-year basis through last month. That’s close to a pandemic high, but still...

The Global Market Index’s (GMI) expected risk premium held steady at 5.9% annualized in May, matching the previous month’s estimate. The framework for estimating equilibrium returns was initially outlined in a 1974 paper by Professor Bill Sharpe. Keep in mind, too, t...

The major asset classes delivered across-the-board gains for a second month in a row in May. Everything apart from cash was up last month, led by a sizzling rally in foreign inflation-linked government bonds. The FTSE Russell World Inflation Index ex-US surged 4.0% last month, the...

iShares ESG Aware USD Corporate Bond ETF (SUSC) - $$0.046684.30-Day SEC Yield of 1.97% as of May 27.Payable Jun 07; for shareholders of record Jun 02; ex-div Jun 01. For further details see: iShares ESG Aware USD Corporate Bond ETF declares monthly distribution of $$0.046684

While many yields are at, or near, their historic lows, opportunity remains in select segments of emerging-market debt, triple B-rated corporate bonds and certain areas of the mortgage-securities market. A good way to approach value stocks has been to find those that are attractively ...

iShares ESG Aware USD Corporate Bond ETF (SUSC) - $0.0460.30-Day SEC Yield of 1.99% as of April 30.Payable May 07; for shareholders of record May 04; ex-div May 03. For further details see: iShares ESG Aware USD Corporate Bond ETF declares monthly distribution of $0.0460

For bond investors, the most relevant metric is the weighted average carbon intensity of a portfolio. Existing carbon intensity reporting tools do not differentiate between carbon footprints from conventional bonds and those from green bonds or other ESG bond structures. Investors...

The fixed income world is beginning to undergo a multiyear transition as aggressive monetary accommodation and government spending across key economies drive higher near-term economic growth rates. The result could be a shift to higher real rates as output gaps narrow, as well as mode...