ESG funds invest in companies with business practices that allow them to have a sustainable and societal impact in the world. Some ESG funds are broadly focused, while others are fairly specific. For example, the SPDR S&P 500 Fossil Fuel Reserves Free ETF allows investors to invest in ...
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For instance, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (ticker: SPY) is the largest ETF in the world. The vast amount of assets in the fund exceeds expenses by a wide margin, resulting in a low 0.09% expense ratio. Actively managed funds tend to have higher expense ratios than passively managed ...
In November,SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETFKREsaw their largest monthly outflows since January 2015 with investors withdrawing about $547 million. This happened to be the second straight month of net withdrawals. Also,SPDR S&P Bank ETFKBE, targeting a broader swath of banks including regional one...
Gold is down 1.8% in a month. TheVanEck Gold Miners ETF (GDX)was down 6% today. It is down 8% in a week and 17% from its October high. The Transports are rallying Transports are up 9% since Election Day. TheSPDR S&P Transportation ETF (XTN)was up 2% on Monday, and is up 11....
ETFs such as the SPDR S&P 600 Small Cap Value ETF (SLYV) or the Vanguard Value ETF (VTV) seek exposure to value stocks like Macy’s, Johnson & Johnson, orBank of America. Gold Gold has long been seen as a method of storing value, as it can pull through periods ofv...
Our own look back at the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) since its 1993 inception makes one wonder how the term ever came to be used. Of the 31 years since, there have been 18 winning January months (58%) and 13 losing January months (42%), making the odds of a gain slightly higher than...
Receipts (pronounced "spider"). SPDRs are now considered a category of ETFs that track the S&P 500. Nearly three decades later, the market has grown to over 2,500 ETFs on U.S. stock exchanges. Today, State Street Global Advisors is one of the largest asset management companies in the ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is one of the most followed equity indexes, tracking 30 large-cap, well-known companies that trade on U.S. stock exchanges. Because it represents the largest blue-chip companies, the DJIA is often used as a proxy for the health of the stock ...