Research Note: ETFs Exposure to Vulnerabilities During Periods of Market Stress
Exchange-Traded Fund Investors Legal Action Rebuffed This week on September 25, 2017 the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors were rebuffed in their legal action against BlackRock Inc. for omitting certain warnings in fund documents about what could go wrong with ETFs. The complaint against BlackRock was initiated by a group […]
BlackRock ESG Fixed Income ETF Launches – Sustainable Exchange Traded Funds Analysis
Last week BlackRock announced the launch of two fixed income ETFs, the iShares ESG USD Corporate Bond ETF (SUSC) and the iShares ESG 1-5 Year USD Corporate Bond ETF (SUSB). These are intended to track fixed income indexes designed to deliver similar risk and return characteristics as the traditional benchmarks but further qualified on the […]
Van Eck Vectors Green Bond ETF (GRNB)-New ESG Product
Assessment Monitor Synopsis On March 3, 2017 Van Eck Associates Corp.launched the VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF, an index fund that seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the S&P Green Bond Select Index. The index is market value weighted and designed to capture […]