How BlackRock made ESG the hottest ticket on Wall Street
The asset manager drove a significant part of the shift into ESG investments by including its main ESG fund in model portfolios it offers financial advisers.
The asset manager drove a significant part of the shift into ESG investments by including its main ESG fund in model portfolios it offers financial advisers.
The BlackRock fund saw its total assets fall to $69 million from $803 million.
The locally-domiciled funds are also available to mainland China investors under wealth management connect
The two firms announced four new exchange-traded fund products between them
The new fund, the ARK Transparency ETF, arrives as Wood’s favored tech stocks finally catch a break
Building a positive impact portfolio involves the use of both negative and positive screens, as well as the consideration of trading issues and portfolio weighting
While roughly $120 billion has flowed into ESG ETFs this year, just a handful of institutional investors control a large part of the market
Clients will be able to ‘invest with both their head and their heart’, according to FSA’s sister title, International Adviser.
If one of the sub-groups of ESG funds performs badly it could reflect on the whole field.
FE fundinfo’s Mikkel Bates says there is a groundswell of interest from end investors
Fund buyers have warned asset managers that there is more to changing a mandate than slapping a new label on a fund.
More than 70% of the websites surveyed by Planet Tracker failed to offer an ESG filter