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Raising the Bar with the S&P 500 ESG Elite Index
Starting with the big question, what does ESG mean to investors and can S&P DJI help? Does it mean: Avoiding certain unethical or unsustainable business practices? Yes—S&P 500® Sustainability Screened Index Investing in clean energy? Yes—S&P Global Clean Energy Index Integrating ESG scores? Yes—S&P 500 ESG Index Can it mean combining best-in-class ESG scores and avoiding unsustainable…
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Accessing the Expanding S&P 500 ESG Index Ecosystem
The S&P 500 ESG Index has redefined mainstream access to ESG, providing global investors with new tools designed to help them align objectives with their ESG values. Explore how this expanding ESG ecosystem is defining the sustainable core with S&P DJI’s Mona Naqvi, Horizon Investments’ Scott Ladner, Axio Financial’s Peter Horacek, and Sage Advisory’s Bob…
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Simplifying Sustainability: Meet the S&P Sustainability Screened Indices
How are mainstream, exclusion-based approaches to sustainability helping market participants align values and investment objectives? S&P DJI’s Mona Naqvi and iShare’s Sarah Kjellberg explore the design and range of potential applications for the S&P Sustainability Screened Indices. [youtube 1yrmwiIRaGI]
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2020 – The Dawn of the Passive Investing Era in India: Part Two
The previous blog highlighted the significant shifts to passive investing in India. However, Indian passive trends have continued to favor plain vanilla indices due to their ease of understanding, rather than exploring alternative thematic indices, such as the S&P Kensho New Economies Indices or factor Indices. However, once the acceptability and acceptance of passive investment…
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2020 – The Dawn of the Passive Investing Era in India: Part One
The year 2020 has brought about many unexpected turns of events. The COVID-19 pandemic, which will be marked in history as one of the most-acute pandemics that the world has had to experience, is one. Another area that has seen a transformation in the financial investing space is the realization and acceptance of passive investing….
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Looking Under the Hood of S&P 500 Information Technology Performance
Has the IT sector done well because of the quality factor, or is it the other way round? S&P DJI’s Anu Ganti takes a closer look at the relationship between sectors and factors to explore what’s driving IT’s climb over the past 12 months. Has the IT sector done well because of the quality factor,…
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How Are Insurance Investors Using ETFs?
S&P Dow Jones Indices recently published its fifth annual analysis of exchange-traded fund (ETF) usage by U.S. insurers in their general accounts. Regulatory filing data, which details the individual securities that insurers hold, showed that in 2019, ETF AUM in insurance general accounts grew to USD 31 billion—a 16% increase over 2018. While this headline…
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How are India’s Capital Markets Changing?
COVID-19 has left its mark on India’s capital markets, as gains of the past five years were given back in Q1 2020. S&P DJI’s Ved Malla takes a closer look at how India’s sectors have held up amid uncertainty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2yqa93eOTo Read more here: https://beta.indexologyblog.com/2020/04/06/covid-19s-role-in-the-changing-landscape-of-indian-capital-markets/
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Seeking Durability in Dividends
Do the S&P 500 High Yield Dividend Aristocrats provide durability during times of distress? S&P DJI’s Anu Ganti explains how dividend growers are positioned for the current climate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=902dSAAR78U Learn more here https://beta.indexologyblog.com/2020/04/30/durability-during-distress/
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Exploring Low Volatility over the Long-Term in India
How does the low volatility factor respond to periods of crisis and do the results tend to hold over the long term in India? S&P DJI’s Koel Ghosh takes a closer look at the low volatility anomaly in India. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ply2mfEE0xc&t Read more here: https://beta.indexologyblog.com/2020/03/24/low-volatility-strategies-in-times-of-high-volatility/.
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