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Maintaining Low Tracking Error: The Construction of the S&P 500 ESG Index
When it comes to integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment strategies, market participants may be interested in deviations from the benchmark. Tracking error is a widely used metric that helps measure the size of these deviations. Improving the ESG profile of a composition often means accepting a higher tracking error due to…
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Sector Neutrality – An Essential Mechanism within the S&P 500 ESG Index
The S&P 500® ESG Index seeks to provide a measurement of U.S. equities while incorporating ESG factors.1 The index maintains similar industry weights to the S&P 500 while enhancing the index’s sustainability characteristics. The Importance of Sector Neutrality within the S&P 500 ESG Index A common misconception is that ESG indices remove or underweight sectors…
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Integrating Sustainability: 5 Years of the S&P 500 ESG Index
How has the S&P 500 ESG Index helped to elevate ESG investing from the margins to the mainstream? Reflecting on the five years since its launch, S&P DJI’s Jaspreet Duhra, Sherifa Issifu and Maya Beyhan take a closer look at a benchmark that has adapted to the ever-changing sustainability landscape while outperforming the broad equity…
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