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  • Sustainable ETF flows struggle in 2022 despite clean energy boost

    11 April 2022

    Sustainable exchange traded products (ETPs) have struggled to carry the flow momentum from 2021 into 2022, with monthly inflows in the first three months of 2022 around half the levels reported in in late 2021.

  • Record-breaking 2021 sustainable ETF flows jump 62%

    11 January 2022

    More than $135 billion flowed into global sustainable exchange traded products (ETPs) in 2021, setting a fresh all-time high after record-breaking 2020 inflows.

  • Sustainable ETFs reach $100bn 2021 inflow milestone in September

    11 October 2021

    Sustainable exchange traded products (ETPs) have extended their record-breaking inflows, as the 2021 total reached the $100 billion milestone in September...

  • News round-up: S&P, Barclays, EU taxonomy and more

    26 April 2021

  • BlackRock's iShares launches two Paris-aligned ETFs

    26 April 2021

  • US sustainable ETFs 'not as passive' on ESG voting as you may think, says Morgan Stanley

    25 March 2021

    Passively managed US sustainability-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) vote in favour of environmental and social shareholder proposals considerably more frequently than their non-sustainable peers, according to research by Morgan Stanley, but still less than their actively managed rivals.

  • Planet Tracker identifies deforestation risk behind ETFs

    18 December 2020

    Exchange traded funds (ETFs) from asset managers including BlackRock (iShares), Vanguard and State Street hide entrenched deforestation risk from investors, according to sustainability think tank Planet Tracker.

  • BlackRock's iShares launches first climate-risk adjusted government bond fund

    06 October 2020

    BlackRock has launched a product that is believed to be the first climate-risk-adjusted exchange-traded fund (ETF) to invest in government bonds.

  • ESG ETF assets could hit over 3% of market by 2029, Morgan Stanley

    07 August 2020

    Rapid growth of assets in environmental, social and governance (ESG)-focused exchange traded funds (ETFs) could see them hit almost $600 billion - equivalent to around 3.2% of the total market - by 2029, according to Morgan Stanley.

  • BlackRock to expand on ESG in exchange traded funds

    17 February 2020

    BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, said iShares, its provider of exchange traded funds (ETFs), will expand its range of funds with an environmental, social and governance (ESG) focus and tighten screening of its existing ESG ETFs.