Advisors looking for a potential standout among ESG benchmarks may want to evaluate the S&P 500 ® ESG Leaders Index, which debuted earlier this year.

The S&P 500 ESG Index seeks to reflect many of the attributes of the S&P 500 itself, while providing an improved sustainability profile as a result of an updated ESG score.

The S&P 500 ESG Index, which is the underlying index for the SPDR S&P ESG ETF (EFIV), recently completed its fourth annual rebalance. Investors considering EFIV should note that the S&P 500 ESG ...

These two aren't the only head scratchers in the index's latest update. The S&P 500 ESG Index just underwent its annual rebalance and reconstitution. Of course, it made news for who was left out ...

Tesla was removed from the S&P 500 ESG index – shorthand for “environmental, social and governance” – despite a business model centered on the development of eco-friendly technologies such ...

While the automaker’s stock is down more than 7 percent today, the biggest news comes from the fact that Tesla has been removed from the S&P 500 ESG Index.

There is more going on in the ESG world, as seemingly passive funds have an element of active management that other index funds do not.

ESG-driven exclusions of large companies like Tesla can potentially result in material performance deviations against an ESG-agnostic broad-market index portfolio.

HSBC has launched a global Index that uses artificial intelligence to help measure the improvement of a company’s ESG credentials and their potential for positive financial performance.

ESG stands for “environmental, social and governance.” About $65 billion is indexed or benchmarked to the S&P ESG index, compared to more than $13 trillion for the overall S&P 500 — which ...

Tesla is Kicked Off an Index For Socially Responsible Companies While Exxon Remains The S&P Global kicked Tesla out of its S&P 500 ESG Index after an annual re-balancing. Elon Musk questions why ...