Six ETFs for altruistic investors
21 Sep 17
As the proportion of socially responsible assets has soared, from 3.4% in 2014 to 22% today, the range of ETFs designed to capture this demand has grown. Sam Dickens, assistant portfolio manager at IG, looks at some of the best impact ETFs on offer.
UBS MSCI Japan Socially Responsible
Dickens noted Japanese equities have so far had a mixed performance in 2017.
“Financials have lagged while the technology sector has performed strongly,” he said.
“This ETF is currently positioned to continue to perform well if this trend persists, with a higher exposure to tech stocks (+2.5%) and less to financials (-8.5%) relative to the wider TOPIX index.”
It has an expense ratio of 0.4%.
