SPDR S&P 500 ESG ETF (EFIV)

I was doing final prep work for the VettaFi Equity Symposium last week (close to 500 live attendees and more will catch the replay). However, the regulators made asset management news with their focus...

Once upon a time, dividends played a starring role in equity markets—until 14 years of easy money whetted investors' appetite for risk and created a massive tailwind for unprofitable, long-duration gr...

The S&P 500 Index has rebounded sharply off its previous low in October, closing up 14% on Feb. 17 since October's trough. The market could continue to rally, of course.

Investors are often encouraged to take long-term views of financial markets and while securities don't move higher in a linear fashion and there will be bumps along the way, there is something to be s...

Legacy environmental, social, and governance (ESG) exchange traded funds typically deploy exclusionary tactics, meaning that those funds don't feature allocations to “sin stocks” such as alcohol, cann...

Despite mounting criticism, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) is an investing style with merits. In fact, as ESG ages and becomes a central part of core portfolios, more benefits are emergin...

This year was a trying one for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ETFs. There's the obvious matter of many ESG funds slumping because growth stocks did the same.

There was a time when environmental, social, and governance (ESG) exchange traded funds were viewed as satellite positions or complements to traditional core holdings, but that moment has passed.

There was a time when environmental, social, and governance (ESG) exchange traded funds were viewed as satellite positions or complements to traditional core holdings, but that moment has passed.

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing remained in focus in 2022, and one reason for the extension of the trend is that this style of market participation is, increasingly, a point of e...