$3 Trillion ESG Lie Exposed

Joseph Hogue
ā¢February 26th, 2024
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https://mystockmarketbasics.com/worthybonds š¤ Get a Free bond and 7% Return on your cash with Worthy and this special promo link. ESG stocks and funds are collapsing with the number of ESG ETFs closing more than doubling from the year before. The failure of ESG funds is not what you think though, these ETFs have actually made money! I'll detail why ESG stocks and ETFs are dying and the $3 trillion lie in the market.
ETFs created in the Environmental, Social and Governance theme have been slammed with closures. Last year saw just 48 new funds, less than half the number created the year before, while the number of funds closing more than doubled to 36 during the year.
The selling has been most pronounced in the US with investors pulling $13 billion out of ESG funds last year and $5 billion of that in the last three months alone. In fact, only Japan and Canada also saw net selling with investors withdrawing $1.4 billion from the funds while those in Europe, Asia and Australia invested $4 billion.
This all contrasts remarkably with 2021 when investors pushed more than $180 billion into these funds in the first quarter alone. US investors anted up more than $20 billion that quarter and invested nearly $60 billion during the year.
Usually when an ETF theme sees this kind of massive closures itās because the theme or investment idea has seen equally massive losses. That isnāt the case here though. The largest ESG ETF, the iShares ESG Aware USA ETF (ESGU) saw $9 billion withdrawn last year and is already down $809 million this yearā¦even as the stock price jumped 17.7% in 2023.
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Joseph Hogue, CFA spent nearly a decade as an investment analyst for institutional firms and banks. He now helps people understand their financial lives through dividend stocks, investing and ways to make more money. He has appeared on Bloomberg and on sites like CNBC and Morningstar. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a veteran of the Marine Corps.

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