Launched on 12/01/2016, the iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF (ESGU) is a smart beta exchange traded fund offering broad exposure to the Style Box - All Cap Growth category of the market. What Are Smart ...

When large-cap growth stocks dominate headlines and valuations stretch, investors holding pure S&P 500 exposure face a ...

Academics from Stanford, Harvard and Amsterdam universities and London Business School found the EU legislation, introduced in 2021 to encourage sustainable investment, had not meaningfully improved ...

Friedberg is a former investment portfolio manager, university finance instructor and author of three books including "Personal Finance; An Encyclopedia of Modern Money Management." Her work has been ...

Asset managers in Europe and the U.S. have spent 2024 winding down hundreds of ESG funds, as the investment strategy continues to bump up against regulatory headwinds. In the third quarter alone, ...

Sorting ETFs and mutual funds into proper sectors and allocations can be a challenge for investors even when they have plenty of good information to go on. But when it comes to evaluating ESG ...

The global coverage of environmental, social, and governance open-end and exchange-traded funds attracted an estimated USD 10.4 billion of net new money in the third quarter of 2024, a notable uptick ...

Companies with good “environmental, social and governance” ratings are actually worse for the environment.

BofA Securities analysts named the stocks with the highest ESG funds’ weight relative to the S&P 500 (SP500). Over the past two years, socially responsible investing (or SRI) and environmental, social ...

The US backlash against ESG finally appears to be going global, based on first quarter fund flows. Meanwhile, domestic financial advisors, for their part, don’t see that money coming back into ...

The ESG Fund Names Guidelines apply to Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (“UCITS”) Management Companies and Alternative Investment Fund Managers (“AIFMs”) (together ...