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    Invesco Launches New Sterling ESG ETF

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – Invesco announced the launch of the Invesco GBP Corporate Bond ESG UCITS ETF, which aims to address the growing needs of Sterling-based income investors looking for low-cost passive exposure to an ESG benchmark.

    “Income investors continue to struggle for decent yield and, up until now, finding an attractive yield with ESG considerations factored into the product has been tough,”
    says Paul Syms, Head of ETF Fixed Income Product Management at Invesco. The Index this ETF follows has been designed to offer a higher ESG score than the broad corporate bond market but with similar sector exposures, credit ratings and risk characteristics. As a result, we would expect the ETF to provide similar yield, duration and overall performance that investors would receive from a broad index.

    The new ESG ETF will track the performance of the Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Sterling Liquid Corporate ESG Weighted Bond Index, which includes sterling-denominated investment-grade, fixed-rate securities. Bonds must be issued by companies in developed markets and have £350 million minimum par amount outstanding. Any company involved in tobacco, thermal coal, oil sands, civilian firearms or military weapons is excluded from the Index. The weights of the constituents are then adjusted based upon certain ESG metrics, which seek to increase overall exposure to those issuers demonstrating a robust ESG profile. MSCI provides the ESG research used in this fund.

    “As we continue building out our range of equity and fixed income ESG products, we are keen to ensure investors have not only a well-considered strategy but also an economical way to express their ethical views,” adds Gary Buxton, Head of EMEA ETFs at Invesco. “We have launched this fund with an annual management fee of just 0.10%, placing it on level par with our non-ESG corporate bond ETFs, which are among the lowest cost of competing products.”

    The Index is rebalanced monthly and the portfolio manager will be pragmatic when rebalancing the fund. The portfolio manager may also use sampling techniques to match as closely as practical the characteristics of the Index.

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    Filipe Albuquerque
    Filipe Albuquerque
    Filipe is an economist with 8 years of experience in macroeconomic and financial analysis for the Economist Intelligence Unit, the UN World Institute for Development Economic Research, the Stockholm School of Economics and the School of Oriental and African Studies. Filipe holds a MSc in European Political Economy from the LSE and a MSc in Economics from the University of London, where he currently is a PhD candidate.

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