(This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, click here.) ESG investing — or strategies that take a company’s environmental, social and governance factors into consideration — grew to more than $30 trillion in 2018, according to Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, and
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Traders and financial professionals work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images When it comes to money-managing, three is better than one. “Teams do better than single-managed funds,” Michael Mauboussin, director of research at BlueMountain Capital Management, said at the Project Punch Card Conference
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters It may have been quite the decade for the U.S. exchange-traded fund market, but the next one could see its assets surge tenfold to $50 trillion, Bank of America predicted. “The current growth rate points to ETF assets approaching $50tn
U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping shake hands before their bilateral meeting during the G-20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan on June 29, 2019. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters CNBC’s Jim Cramer has taken note of President Donald Trump’s newfound optimism but remains skeptical of the odds that leaders of the U.S. and
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings gives a keynote address, January 6, 2016 at the CES 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images A lot can happen in a decade. Since 2010, the S&P 500 has returned nearly 185%, an impressive gain for the bellwether stock index. While the