GameStop A Financial Lesson For Kids: Investing Is Supposed To Be Boring
Gainesville Guardian (FL)
WASHINGTON If you have been following the news about the meteoric rise of GameStop stock shares, you may think investing is exciting a chance for anyone and everyone to make fast money.
The story is that Individual GameStop investors spurred on by Reddit users pushed up the value of the video game retailer s stocks to protest the inequity of a system that rewards big Wall Street players who short stocks, which means they make money by gambling that the price of shares in a company will drop.
Those landmarks include outperforming traditional equity benchmarks and a prolific pace of asset gathering.
“Assets invested in ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) ETFs and ETPs reached a new milestone of US$187 billion at the end of 2020. Assets invested in ESG ETFs and ETPs increased by 206% in 2020,” according to ETFGI, a London-based ETF research firm.
Flows to ESG ETFs accelerated late in 2020.
“During December ESG ETFs and ETPs gathered net inflows of US$18.46 billion during, bringing 2020 net inflows to US$88.95 billion which significantly greater than the US$27.79 billion gathered in 2019,” adds ETFGI.
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