May 10, 2021
Socially responsible investments that track factors like environmental, social, and governance principles have been drawing a lot of attention lately, and the category could begin to rival some other mainstream investments.
BlackRock’s head of iShares Americas, Armando Senra, argued that ESG investmets could grow to $1 trillion in assets by 2030, CNBC reports.
The ESG fund category is just starting to pick up momentum over the past year as “we’re just at the very beginning” of what could be a decade-long growth story, Senra told CNBC.
The ESG category is already on pace for a record year of inflows, bringing in over $21 billion in the first quarter of 2021 alone. To put this in perspective, ESG funds attracted over $51 billion in net inflows for the whole of 2020, brought in $21.4 billion over 2019, and saw about $5.4 billion in inflows in 2018.
That demand hasn t gone away, Armando Senra, BlackRock s head of iShares Americas, told CNBC s ETF Edge in an interview Monday. You may have a little bit of a pullback in performance, but we continue to see the flows into offerings such as the iShares U.S. Infrastructure ETF (IFRA) and the iShares Self-Driving EV and Tech ETF (IDRV), he said. We re not just chasing one-year themes. We re looking for 10-year themes, Senra said, calling thematic investing a long-term growth story for us and for the industry.
While high-growth tech trades may take a back seat to value-based investments as the economic reopening gets underway, themes do have staying power, Salvatore Bruno, chief investment officer of IndexIQ, said in the same ETF Edge interview.
Liquid Alts Can Help a Traditional Portfolio Adapt to Changing Conditions April 22, 2021
Investors can look to exchange traded fund solutions to adapt to an environment characterized by volatile equity markets and low but rising interest rates.
In the recent webcast,
Optimizing the 60/40 Portfolio Through Varying Market Conditions with Liquid Alts, Salvatore Bruno, Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director, IndexIQ; Kelly Ye, Director of Research, IndexIQ; and Dan Petersen, Director, Product Management, IndexIQ, outlined the current market situation and offered a look into liquid alternatives as a way to better manage market risks. Specifically, we are currently in a record-setting bull market that has lifted valuations to record high levels, which could expose investors to painful pullbacks. Meanwhile, interest may have finally bottomed out, with 10-year Treasury note yields touching a low of 0.53% back in 2020.
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Salvatore shares the secrets of a determined mindset in his new book Fitness coach Salvatore Bruno whose fundraising biking marathons have made him a local legend has published a book about his exploits - and his determined mindset . The 43-year-old father of two, who lives in Straight Road, Old Windsor, has been inspired by the memory of his father Carlo who died of a heart attack. Salvatore cycled from Edinburgh Castle to Windsor Castle in 39 hours raising £2,355 for the British Heart Foundation - just one of a series of challenges he undertook for the charity.