Hints and tips:
...Holders of the bond said they hope to get single-A credit returns with triple-A protection....
...For example, the SSGA SPDR MSCI World UCITS ETF tracks the MSCI World index for an ongoing charge of 0.12 per cent, while the Xtrackers S&P 500 UCITS ETF tracks the S&P 500 index of US stocks for 0.06 per...
...Investors in the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) will receive regular dividend income, she explained, whereas those in IVVM ad IVVB will not....
...Totting up the current yield on the S&P 500 and the fees, Kashner reckons investors were typically paying around 2.8 per cent a year for downside protection that might be as slim as 9 per cent....
...Scherr recalls one Chinese company that hacked into a start-up’s system under cover of ordering its products....
...Apply P&G’s trailing multiple and the business could be worth as much as $49bn. That would be a stretch. The US equity capital markets are in a deep freeze....
...However you measure it, something like half of Japan Inc trades under 1 p/b....
...BlackRock’s size should give it protection. Few can compete with its breadth of products. Its Aladdin portfolio management technology platform has tightened its links with customers....
...The First Trust and L&G funds in the list have notably fewer holdings, but it’s the HAN S&P Global Clean Energy Select HANZero Ucits ETF (ZERP) that is most concentrated by this metric, with just 30 holdings...
...In the supply chain rankings of 2007, P&G, Toyota and Walmart all had a peer ranking score at least double that of Apple....
...Some companies might score well on environmental issues but badly on the G and S by, for example, being led by a tweet-happy technoking with a supine board....
...Innovator has built up a large book of buffered ETFs, which provide a degree of downward protection, based on indices such as the S&P 500....
...And only one of the ETFs has outperformed the S&P 500 over the past three years. The volatility of these products has already been enough to put off plenty of investors....
...There was lots of put buying at the end of the year [for downside protection]....
...No such products have emerged....
...The divestment, coupled with the hit from the Covid-19 pandemic, has meant that Coty’s $4.6bn in annual revenue in its last financial year to end June was basically the same as before the P&G deal....
...Merck sold its consumer products division to P&G in 2018. A year later GSK and Pfizer formed a joint venture from their consumer products divisions, which they plan to spin off next year....
...It’s the sort of message that has become de rigueur since governance put the G in ESG....
...I think this too (at least the “E” and “S” parts; there may be hope for “G”), but it means a lot more coming from him, and he does not hold back....
...P&G has come under fierce criticism from some investors over its role in deforestation to make products such as toilet paper, even as it has pledged to fund tree restoration projects....
...“Tesla’s bitcoin investment does not have an impact on its ESG score,” said S&P Global....
...All four have comfortably outperformed the S&P 500 this year. Amazon, the biggest mover, is up almost 70 per cent versus the index’s 1.5 per cent gain....
...Going forward, the federal government has ordered that only Euro-V standard fuels can be imported. Elsewhere, banks have announced policies to end financing for coal-powered plants....
...They also do not want to lose the legal protection that exempts them from responsibility for what users say or do online....
...In the US, PayPal and Square have risen 33 per cent and 26 per cent respectively, whereas the S&P 500 is still down by a tenth....
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