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Amazon

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Eli Lilly

Broadcom

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SPDR MSCI ACWI Shs

NZAC tracks a tier-weighted index of large- and mid-cap global stocks selected and weighted based on ESG criteria that are compatible with the Paris Climate Agreement and carbon reduction goals.

SPDR MSCI Emerging Markets Fossil Fuel Free ETF

SPDR S&P 500 ESG ETF

SPDR MSCI ACWI Climate Paris A

SPDR S&P 500 Fossil Fuel Reserves Free ETF

As the market enters bear country, many sustainable fund investors are bearing the brunt of this downturn. But at Morningstar, Jon Hale, director of sustainability research for the Americas at Sustainalytics, notes that investors should stay the course with sustainable investing.

Message to ESG Investors: Hold Steady

Investors continue to pump money into ESG-themed funds even after the market faced its worst slump since 1970. Bloomberg is reporting that investors last week put more than $1.2 billion into ESG-focused ETFs.

ESG Funds Rake in Capital — But for How Long?

iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF

iShares Paris - Aligned Climate MSCI USA ETF

One is a reorganization of ‘LOWC,' the other a fresh fund.

State Street Debuts 2 Paris-Aligned ETFs

State Street Global Advisors today introduced two SPDR MSCI Climate Paris Aligned ETFs designed to help investors meet their climate objectives. The SPDR MSCI USA Climate Paris Aligned ETF (NZUS) and the SPDR MSCI ACWI Climate Paris Aligned ETF (NZAC) track the MSCI USA Climate Paris Aligned and MSCI ACWI Climate Paris Aligned Indexes, respectively, and are designed to support investors interested in addressing [.

State Street Global Advisors Introduces 2 Climate Paris-Aligned ETFs

The SPDR MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (LOWC) is heading for some big changes, and those alterations could arrive as soon as Friday, April 22. As was previously announced, State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) is reconfiguring LOWC into the SPDR MSCI ACWI Climate Paris Aligned ETF (NZAC).

Low Carbon ETF Soon to Get a Facelift

The revised ETF will take a more differentiated angle.

State Street Climate ETF Gets Makeover

Climate funds, a burgeoning subsector of the broader environmental, social, and governance (ESG) space, are attracting more assets and attention from investors. Over time, that should be positive for exchange traded funds such as the SPDR MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (LOWC).

Amid Climate Fund Enthusiasm, Look at LOWC

Global regulators are pushing for banks and institutional investors to disclose carbon emissions linked to their loans and investments. On Thursday, the International Sustainability Standards Board published a draft of its proposed standards, which provide a yardstick for regulators around the globe to use for imposing standardized disclosure rules on companies.

Global Regulators Push Banks to Disclose Carbon Emissions

Russia's war against Ukraine is reminding governments and investors about the importance of energy security as a pillar of broader national security objectives. The conflict is also serving as an avenue to spotlight the importance of renewable energy and decarbonization efforts as central themes in countries' plans to bolster energy security.

Decarbonization Efforts Are Increasingly Meaningful

Russia's instigated war with Ukraine is putting energy security in the spotlight for a number of nations, including the U.S. and many throughout Europe. There are multiple points of view emerging.

Long-Term Allure With LOWC

More corporations and governments are prioritizing carbon reduction efforts, but these are long-ranging, capital-intensive plans. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

Leveraging LOWC for Carbon Reduction Expenditures

As climate-based investing becomes a more significant priority for a broader swath of investors, so is clarity and ease of use. Some exchange traded funds check those boxes.

Love LOWC for Straightforward Climate Approach

Growth and adoption of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing strategies, including exchange traded funds, isn't up for debate. However, if those encouraging trends are to continue, index providers and fund sponsors will need to make clarity and simplicity top priorities.

Advisors Demanding More ESG Clarity

SPDR S&P Kensho Clean Power ETF

SPDR MSCI EAFE Fossil Fuel Free ETF

Columbia Multi-Sector Municipal Income ETF

More investors are constructing portfolios with environmental, social, and governance principles in mind. This includes explicit carbon-reduction targets, temperature alignment goals, and climate objectives such as mitigation and adaption.

SSGA: Investors Should Use Optimization When Constructing Reduced-Carbon Portfolios

The effects of the Russia-Ukraine war have been far-reaching and devastating. In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, NATO countries have been placing sanctions on Russia, companies have stopped doing business in the country, and index providers such as MSCI and FTSE Russell have delisted Russian securities from their indexes, making the region essentially uninvestable.

ESG in a Time of War

JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia EX-Japan ETF

iShares Global Green Bond ETF

IQ Real Return ETF

Direxion Daily Real Estate Bull 3x Shares

Direxion Daily Real Estate Bear 3x Shares

Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3x Shares

Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares

Direxion Russell 1000 Growth Over Value ETF

Direxion Russell 1000 Value Over Growth ETF

Global events seem to have put a damper on the U.S. ETF industry.

ETF Odds & Ends: Quiet Yet Eventful Week

World leaders on Wednesday endorsed a resolution at the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi to end plastic pollution and create an international legally binding agreement by 2024. The resolution, titled “End Plastic Pollution: Towards an internationally legally binding instrument,” was adopted at the conclusion of the three-day UNEA-5.2 meeting and addresses the full lifecycle of plastic, including its production, [.

World Leaders Endorse Resolution to End Plastic Pollution

State Street Global Advisors announced planned changes to the SPDR MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (LOWC). Effective Friday, April 22, the fund will change its name and ticker to the SPDR MSCI ACWI Climate Paris Aligned ETF (NZAC) and move its primary listing from NYSE Arca to the Nasdaq Stock Market.

State Street Announces Changes to Thematic ESG ETF

Growth stocks are struggling on a year-to-date basis, and that scenario is exerting some pressure on some environmental, social, and governance (ESG) exchange traded funds because many of those ETFs are heavy on technology and some other growth-centric sectors. One way of employing the advantages of ESG while not being excessively weighted to technology stocks [.

Lean on LOWC for Long-Term ESG Exposure

iShares MSCI ACWI ETF

Amplify Etho Climate Leadership US ETF

FlexShares ESG & Climate US Large Cap Core Index Fund

 JPMorgan Carbon Transition U.S. Equity ETF

Impact Shares MSCI Global Climate Select ETF

US Vegan Climate ETF

New analysis show gap between actions and words, leaving some climate ETFs overexposed.

Are Climate ETFs Based On Empty Promises?

A recent study done by State Street Global Advisors asked over 300 institutional investors what some of their biggest barriers to ESG investing and portfolio decarbonization were. Unsurprisingly, the main issue was a lack of either quality ESG data or a lack of any standardization of the data and reporting.

Institutional Investors Discuss the Shift to Portfolio Decarbonization

A recent study done by State Street Global Advisors asked over 300 institutional investors their thoughts on ESG going forward and how they plan to proceed with ESG investing. The study found that in just two years, the primary reasoning for investing in ESG had changed amongst investors, a significant find and a good indicator [.

Institutional Investors' ESG Priorities Have Changed

World leaders are nearing the end of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland this week and have released the first draft of an agreement from the two weeks of meetings. Contained within it is a call to action for developed countries to at least double the financial amounts allocated towards developing countries for climate [.

COP26 Draft Targets Fossil Fuels for First Time

Next year is expected to bring about double-digit increases to spending in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives by companies, as well as sustainability within companies and their supply chains, reported over half of senior executives surveyed. The survey was conducted by Verdantix and polled executives in charge of ESG practices within their companies, reports [.

Senior Executives Weigh In on ESG

The ban of ozone-damaging chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the 1980s has led to a recovering ozone layer and climate benefits that were unexpected by many, according to the Financial Times. Following a trend of years of thinning, the ozone layer in the stratosphere, which blocks harmful ultraviolet radiation is showing signs of recovery.

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