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...In March 2023 the iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF (ESGU) haemorrhaged $3.9bn in one day. On the same day the iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF (QUAL) saw a $4.8bn jump in net inflows....
...Net inflows into US-listed emerging markets ETFs that expressly exclude China more than tripled, to $5.3bn, last year, as China-focused ETFs saw net outflows of $802mn — compared with $7.5bn of inflows in...
...Women in ETFs is drawing in members in nascent markets, too....
...Flows into emerging market equity exchange traded funds marked a new record in February, as activity by China’s “national team” appeared to continue at pace....
...He said Nutmeg was forecasting a soft landing for the US economy, and recommended the iShares S&P 500 UCITs ETF (CSPX) for UK-based investors looking at US large caps, and the JPMorgan BetaBuilders US Small...
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...The strategists at the Swiss lender estimated that ETFs tracking the CSI 300 Index have accounted for more than 75 per cent of the inflows and that flows into products linked to the CSI 500 index have represented...
...“The investor enthusiasm that we saw very evidently in markets in March was captured in ETF flows,” said Laura Cooper, senior macro strategist for iShares in the Emea region at BlackRock....
...“When iShares competes directly with Vanguard on cost, like S&P 500 or total stock market ETFs, investors still reach for Vanguard’s ETF because those cheap, broad-market index funds are what [Vanguard is...
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...Even the Asia Pacific index, which doesn’t gel with my atlas. Likewise, MSCI EM Asia, the index my ETF tracks, is supposed to include emerging market countries only....
...For example, an oil company might be in an index, and held by an ETF, simply because it has better green credentials than another oil company....
...Rosenbluth said $2.2bn was withdrawn from the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) and $1.2bn from the iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (EMB), something he attributed to October being a...
...China’s size, making up a quarter of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, means, meanwhile, that a downturn there can cause index investors to lose money even when other emerging countries are holding up....
...India is due to be added to the most widely followed emerging market bond index next year — a move that Morgan Stanley forecasts will drive $30bn of foreign inflows into its government bond market....
...“A fee skirmish broke out in high-yield index ETFs in July, when [Charles] Schwab entered the high-yield bond market at the same price as the lowest-cost high-yield bond ETF [State Street’s high-yield bond...
...Higher-risk emerging market equity ETFs saw their third-best month ever, taking in $22.3bn, the BlackRock data show....
...A large chunk of new capital came from ETF offerings that invest in the tech-focused SSE Star Market 100 Index....
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...Index funds minimise their expenses by simply investing in all the companies in a certain market sector without carefully scrutinising individual companies, a strategy that fails to consider the “unique...
...Data provider CFRA noted that the SPDR S&P China ETF (GXC) lost 12 per cent in the year to December 11 while the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF (EMXC) was up 12 per cent over the same period....
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