
Aimed at investors seeking to embed their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and climate principles into their core investment-grade holdings, this fund strives to replicate the price and yield performance of the Northern Trust ESG & Climate Investment Grade U.S. Corporate Core Index, prior to accounting for fees and expenses.
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Sustainable investing offers another opportunity for advisors to have deeper, more meaningful relationships with their clients. ESG investing — or “sustainable investing” — continues to gain awareness, acceptance, and assets, but skepticism among advisors is still common, according to a FlexShares insight based on The Flexible Advisor podcast.

As sustainable investing continues to affirm its place among traditional strategies, many advisors assume that sustainable investing entails a trade-off in returns. “The facts have been for a long time that sustainable funds, on the whole, perform just as well as any other type of funds,” Jon Hale, director of ESG strategy at Morningstar, said [.

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing has seen exponential growth over the past years. While it presents an opportune growth strategy, the question investors need to ask is whether the strategy they're using addresses future risk.

Sustainable investing offers another way to manage risk in portfolios without limiting performance. In fact, over a one-year period, the S&P 500 ESG index has returned 20.25%, while the S&P 500 index has only had returns of 16.39%, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices.

The air may have been slowly escaping the renewable energy stock balloon lately, but it could be an opportune time to buy the dip for value-focused investors. Based on a Forbes article, renewable energy stocks “had a relatively tough 2021, declining by about 5% over the year, compared to the S&P 500 which gained almost [.