Alphabet was the most widely held stock for the largest ESG funds. Here’s what else they own

12
2
Favorite

Alphabet was the most widely held stock for the largest ESG funds. Here’s what else they own

CNBC2021-05-19

Funds that invest sustainably love tech companies – and Alphabet in particular. MSCI studied the year end 2020 holdings of the 20 largest funds that invest based on environmental, social and ...

Source Link

Disclaimer: Investing carries risk. This is not financial advice. The above content should not be regarded as an offer, recommendation, or solicitation on acquiring or disposing of any financial products, any associated discussions, comments, or posts by author or other users should not be considered as such either. It is solely for general information purpose only, which does not consider your own investment objectives, financial situations or needs. TTM assumes no responsibility or warranty for the accuracy and completeness of the information, investors should do their own research and may seek professional advice before investing.

Report

Comment（2）

H772
·2021-05-19
Sounds good to hold this stock
Reply
Like
Report
CeciLi
·2021-05-19
Is this worth to buy?
Reply
2
Report

Most Discussed

7x24

All

Terms and Conditions·Privacy Policy

Company: TTMF Limited. Tech supported by Xiangshang Yixin.

Email：uservice@ttm.financial

{"i18n":{"language":"en_US"},"data":{"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1101446216?lang=en_US&edition=fundamental","thumbnail":"","is_english":true,"pubTime":"2021-05-19 17:01","share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/72bb72e1b84c09fca865c6dcb1bbcd16","id":"1101446216","market":"us","top_or_hot":-1,"title":"Alphabet was the most widely held stock for the largest ESG funds. Here’s what else they own","media":"CNBC","content":"<div>\n<p>Funds that invest sustainably love tech companies – and Alphabet in particular.\nMSCI studied the year end 2020 holdings of the 20 largest funds that invest based on environmental, social and ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/alphabet-was-the-most-widely-held-stock-for-the-largest-esg-funds.html\">Source Link</a>\n\n</div>\n","source":"cnbc_highlight","html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Alphabet was the most widely held stock for the largest ESG funds. Here’s what else they own</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nAlphabet was the most widely held stock for the largest ESG funds. Here’s what else they own\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-19 17:01 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/alphabet-was-the-most-widely-held-stock-for-the-largest-esg-funds.html><strong>CNBC</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Funds that invest sustainably love tech companies – and Alphabet in particular.\nMSCI studied the year end 2020 holdings of the 20 largest funds that invest based on environmental, social and ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/alphabet-was-the-most-widely-held-stock-for-the-largest-esg-funds.html\">Source Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","isBrief":false,"type":0,"news_type":1,"symbol":"GOOGL","symbol_name":"谷歌A","start_time":0,"source_url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/alphabet-was-the-most-widely-held-stock-for-the-largest-esg-funds.html","article_id":"1101446216","we_media_id":null,"thumbnails":[],"rights":{"source":"cnbc_highlight","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/alphabet-was-the-most-widely-held-stock-for-the-largest-esg-funds.html","rn_cache_url":null,"customStyle":"body{padding-top:10px;}.ArticleHeader-headline{#titleStyle#}a{#lv2TextColor#}.ArticleHeader-time, .Author-authorNameAndSocial a{#sourceStyle#;}","selectors":".PageBuilder-pageWrapper","filters":".ArticleHeader-eyebrow, .RelatedTags-relatedTags","directOrigin":true},"url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1101446216","pubTimestamp":1621414865,"sourceInfo":{"source_id":"cnbc_highlight","name":"CNBC"},"weMediaInfo":null,"summary":"Funds that invest sustainably love tech companies – and Alphabet in particular.\nMSCI studied the yea","collect":0,"end_time":0,"defaultTopTitle":"cnbc.com","property":[],"viewcount":null,"language":"en","relate_stocks":{"GOOGL":"谷歌A","GOOG":"谷歌"},"translate_title":"谷歌A是最大的ESG基金最广泛持有的股票。这是他们还拥有的东西","themeId":null,"isJumpTheme":false,"ttsUrl":null,"symbols_score_info":{"GOOG":0.9,"GOOGL":0.9},"content_text":"Funds that invest sustainably love tech companies – and Alphabet in particular.\nMSCI studied the year end 2020 holdings of the 20 largest funds that invest based on environmental, social and governance considerations. These funds account for about 13% of total assets in ESG equity funds. They include active and index-based strategies.\nThe information technology sector of the S&P 500 accounted for the largest allocation in most funds, according to MSCI’s analysis. Funds’ holdings in these stocks ranged from 3.5% of their assets to more than 37%.\nMost of the ESG funds in the study had well over 20% of their assets in IT.\nMeanwhile, energy stocks accounted for a minimal portion of the funds’ holdings. This helped the ESG funds outperform last year, as tech rallied while energy declined.\nIndeed, Google’s parent company was held in 12 of the funds — making it the most widely held stock among the participants — with an average weight of 1.9% at year end, according to the study.\nThe next most widely held stocks were Ecolab,Thermo Fisher Scientific and Microsoft.\n“The largest areas where most funds were invested were tech, industrials and health care,” said Rumi Mahmood, senior associate, ESG research at MSCI. “Tech companies have been the ones that have been the best performers. These companies were chosen not because they were tech, but because they fulfilled some sort of ESG criteria.”\nHigher concentration\nGoogle’s parent was present in more of the ESG funds, but Apple was the stock that accounted for the highest concentration within these portfolios.\nThe funds held Apple at an average weight of 5.6%, followed by Microsoft at 5%.\nOther top stocks held by ESG funds include Applied Materials,Cadence Design,Adobe and Texas Instruments,according to MSCI’s analysis.\nMahmood notes that depending on which area it operates in, a tech company may not be as carbon intensive as stocks in other sectors. “There’s a large dispersion,” he said.\nMahmood points out that the largest ESG funds cannot easily be compared since they all have different mandates. However, index-linked funds took in more money last year than actively managed funds.\nLargest ESG funds\nThe largest ESG fund is the Parnassus Core Equity Fund, which is actively managed and has about $23 billion in assets, according to MSCI’s research.\nNext is the iShares ESG Aware MSCI USAETF, with $13 billion in assets, according to the report. Rounding out the top three is the Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund, an index-based fund with $10.9 billion.\n\nMeanwhile, the iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF brought in the most new inflows of the 20 funds in the study, with $7.1 billion in 2020. The iShares Global Clean Energy ETF followed in a distant second with close to $4 billion in new money.\nEnergy holdings\nMahmood said the most widely held energy stock among the biggest funds was Oneok,held by five funds. Next wereHess,Cheniere,Chevron and ConocoPhillips,all held by four of the funds.\n“What’s unique about oil and gas companies in the past year is they all came out and released net zero statements,” said Mahmood. The energy industry’s comments are in response to the Paris Agreement on climate change goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.\n“The assumption is they are the most carbon intensive companies,” Mahmood said, but he noted that the most carbon-intensive funds were not necessarily those with energy holdings.\nThe extent to which a fund is carbon intensive is based on the carbon intensity of its individual stock holdings. For instance, iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF had the highest amount of energy holdings among the 20 funds, at 5.2%. But it was rated moderate in terms of carbon intensity.\nIn the utilities sector, another area thought to be carbon intensive, the top holding among the funds wasAmerican Water Works, held by eight funds.Eversource Energy and Consolidated Edison were next, each held by six funds.\nThe top financial firms held by the funds were Charles Schwab,CME Group,Marsh and McLennan,Moody’s and BlackRock,in that order. Each were held by seven of the funds.\nCommunications services were led by Alphabet. The next most widely held names were Discovery,Electronic Arts, and Cable One.\nThermo Fisher Scientific was the most widely held health company, appearing in 10 funds. That was followed by Danaher Corp,Agilent Technologies and Cerner Corp.","kind":null,"is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":1},"commentList":[{"id":197077659,"gmtCreate":1621415251171,"gmtModify":1704357252485,"author":{"id":"3582172911914523","authorId":"3582172911914523","name":"H772","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/74f6496712945e2802201d39da3869e7","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3582172911914523","idStr":"3582172911914523"},"htmlText":"Sounds good to hold this stock","listText":"Sounds good to hold this stock","text":"Sounds good to hold this stock","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/197077659","repostId":1101446216,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1101446216","pubTimestamp":1621414865,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1101446216?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-19 17:01","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Alphabet was the most widely held stock for the largest ESG funds. Here’s what else they own","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1101446216","media":"CNBC","summary":"Funds that invest sustainably love tech companies – and Alphabet in particular.\nMSCI studied the yea","content":"<div>\n<p>Funds that invest sustainably love tech companies – and Alphabet in particular.\nMSCI studied the year end 2020 holdings of the 20 largest funds that invest based on environmental, social and ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/alphabet-was-the-most-widely-held-stock-for-the-largest-esg-funds.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n","source":"cnbc_highlight","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Alphabet was the most widely held stock for the largest ESG funds. Here’s what else they own</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nAlphabet was the most widely held stock for the largest ESG funds. Here’s what else they own\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-19 17:01 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/alphabet-was-the-most-widely-held-stock-for-the-largest-esg-funds.html><strong>CNBC</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Funds that invest sustainably love tech companies – and Alphabet in particular.\nMSCI studied the year end 2020 holdings of the 20 largest funds that invest based on environmental, social and ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/alphabet-was-the-most-widely-held-stock-for-the-largest-esg-funds.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GOOGL":"谷歌A","GOOG":"谷歌"},"source_url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/alphabet-was-the-most-widely-held-stock-for-the-largest-esg-funds.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/72bb72e1b84c09fca865c6dcb1bbcd16","article_id":"1101446216","content_text":"Funds that invest sustainably love tech companies – and Alphabet in particular.\nMSCI studied the year end 2020 holdings of the 20 largest funds that invest based on environmental, social and governance considerations. These funds account for about 13% of total assets in ESG equity funds. They include active and index-based strategies.\nThe information technology sector of the S&P 500 accounted for the largest allocation in most funds, according to MSCI’s analysis. Funds’ holdings in these stocks ranged from 3.5% of their assets to more than 37%.\nMost of the ESG funds in the study had well over 20% of their assets in IT.\nMeanwhile, energy stocks accounted for a minimal portion of the funds’ holdings. This helped the ESG funds outperform last year, as tech rallied while energy declined.\nIndeed, Google’s parent company was held in 12 of the funds — making it the most widely held stock among the participants — with an average weight of 1.9% at year end, according to the study.\nThe next most widely held stocks were Ecolab,Thermo Fisher Scientific and Microsoft.\n“The largest areas where most funds were invested were tech, industrials and health care,” said Rumi Mahmood, senior associate, ESG research at MSCI. “Tech companies have been the ones that have been the best performers. These companies were chosen not because they were tech, but because they fulfilled some sort of ESG criteria.”\nHigher concentration\nGoogle’s parent was present in more of the ESG funds, but Apple was the stock that accounted for the highest concentration within these portfolios.\nThe funds held Apple at an average weight of 5.6%, followed by Microsoft at 5%.\nOther top stocks held by ESG funds include Applied Materials,Cadence Design,Adobe and Texas Instruments,according to MSCI’s analysis.\nMahmood notes that depending on which area it operates in, a tech company may not be as carbon intensive as stocks in other sectors. “There’s a large dispersion,” he said.\nMahmood points out that the largest ESG funds cannot easily be compared since they all have different mandates. However, index-linked funds took in more money last year than actively managed funds.\nLargest ESG funds\nThe largest ESG fund is the Parnassus Core Equity Fund, which is actively managed and has about $23 billion in assets, according to MSCI’s research.\nNext is the iShares ESG Aware MSCI USAETF, with $13 billion in assets, according to the report. Rounding out the top three is the Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund, an index-based fund with $10.9 billion.\n\nMeanwhile, the iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF brought in the most new inflows of the 20 funds in the study, with $7.1 billion in 2020. The iShares Global Clean Energy ETF followed in a distant second with close to $4 billion in new money.\nEnergy holdings\nMahmood said the most widely held energy stock among the biggest funds was Oneok,held by five funds. Next wereHess,Cheniere,Chevron and ConocoPhillips,all held by four of the funds.\n“What’s unique about oil and gas companies in the past year is they all came out and released net zero statements,” said Mahmood. The energy industry’s comments are in response to the Paris Agreement on climate change goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.\n“The assumption is they are the most carbon intensive companies,” Mahmood said, but he noted that the most carbon-intensive funds were not necessarily those with energy holdings.\nThe extent to which a fund is carbon intensive is based on the carbon intensity of its individual stock holdings. For instance, iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF had the highest amount of energy holdings among the 20 funds, at 5.2%. But it was rated moderate in terms of carbon intensity.\nIn the utilities sector, another area thought to be carbon intensive, the top holding among the funds wasAmerican Water Works, held by eight funds.Eversource Energy and Consolidated Edison were next, each held by six funds.\nThe top financial firms held by the funds were Charles Schwab,CME Group,Marsh and McLennan,Moody’s and BlackRock,in that order. Each were held by seven of the funds.\nCommunications services were led by Alphabet. The next most widely held names were Discovery,Electronic Arts, and Cable One.\nThermo Fisher Scientific was the most widely held health company, appearing in 10 funds. That was followed by Danaher Corp,Agilent Technologies and Cerner Corp.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":197077190,"gmtCreate":1621415206910,"gmtModify":1704357251990,"author":{"id":"3580709888891343","authorId":"3580709888891343","name":"CeciLi","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c84d7339be75b2d5f77e2eee702149e0","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3580709888891343","idStr":"3580709888891343"},"htmlText":"Is this worth to buy?","listText":"Is this worth to buy?","text":"Is this worth to buy?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/197077190","repostId":1101446216,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1101446216","pubTimestamp":1621414865,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1101446216?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-19 17:01","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Alphabet was the most widely held stock for the largest ESG funds. Here’s what else they own","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1101446216","media":"CNBC","summary":"Funds that invest sustainably love tech companies – and Alphabet in particular.\nMSCI studied the yea","content":"<div>\n<p>Funds that invest sustainably love tech companies – and Alphabet in particular.\nMSCI studied the year end 2020 holdings of the 20 largest funds that invest based on environmental, social and ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/alphabet-was-the-most-widely-held-stock-for-the-largest-esg-funds.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n","source":"cnbc_highlight","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Alphabet was the most widely held stock for the largest ESG funds. Here’s what else they own</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nAlphabet was the most widely held stock for the largest ESG funds. Here’s what else they own\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-19 17:01 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/alphabet-was-the-most-widely-held-stock-for-the-largest-esg-funds.html><strong>CNBC</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Funds that invest sustainably love tech companies – and Alphabet in particular.\nMSCI studied the year end 2020 holdings of the 20 largest funds that invest based on environmental, social and ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/alphabet-was-the-most-widely-held-stock-for-the-largest-esg-funds.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GOOGL":"谷歌A","GOOG":"谷歌"},"source_url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/alphabet-was-the-most-widely-held-stock-for-the-largest-esg-funds.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/72bb72e1b84c09fca865c6dcb1bbcd16","article_id":"1101446216","content_text":"Funds that invest sustainably love tech companies – and Alphabet in particular.\nMSCI studied the year end 2020 holdings of the 20 largest funds that invest based on environmental, social and governance considerations. These funds account for about 13% of total assets in ESG equity funds. They include active and index-based strategies.\nThe information technology sector of the S&P 500 accounted for the largest allocation in most funds, according to MSCI’s analysis. Funds’ holdings in these stocks ranged from 3.5% of their assets to more than 37%.\nMost of the ESG funds in the study had well over 20% of their assets in IT.\nMeanwhile, energy stocks accounted for a minimal portion of the funds’ holdings. This helped the ESG funds outperform last year, as tech rallied while energy declined.\nIndeed, Google’s parent company was held in 12 of the funds — making it the most widely held stock among the participants — with an average weight of 1.9% at year end, according to the study.\nThe next most widely held stocks were Ecolab,Thermo Fisher Scientific and Microsoft.\n“The largest areas where most funds were invested were tech, industrials and health care,” said Rumi Mahmood, senior associate, ESG research at MSCI. “Tech companies have been the ones that have been the best performers. These companies were chosen not because they were tech, but because they fulfilled some sort of ESG criteria.”\nHigher concentration\nGoogle’s parent was present in more of the ESG funds, but Apple was the stock that accounted for the highest concentration within these portfolios.\nThe funds held Apple at an average weight of 5.6%, followed by Microsoft at 5%.\nOther top stocks held by ESG funds include Applied Materials,Cadence Design,Adobe and Texas Instruments,according to MSCI’s analysis.\nMahmood notes that depending on which area it operates in, a tech company may not be as carbon intensive as stocks in other sectors. “There’s a large dispersion,” he said.\nMahmood points out that the largest ESG funds cannot easily be compared since they all have different mandates. However, index-linked funds took in more money last year than actively managed funds.\nLargest ESG funds\nThe largest ESG fund is the Parnassus Core Equity Fund, which is actively managed and has about $23 billion in assets, according to MSCI’s research.\nNext is the iShares ESG Aware MSCI USAETF, with $13 billion in assets, according to the report. Rounding out the top three is the Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund, an index-based fund with $10.9 billion.\n\nMeanwhile, the iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF brought in the most new inflows of the 20 funds in the study, with $7.1 billion in 2020. The iShares Global Clean Energy ETF followed in a distant second with close to $4 billion in new money.\nEnergy holdings\nMahmood said the most widely held energy stock among the biggest funds was Oneok,held by five funds. Next wereHess,Cheniere,Chevron and ConocoPhillips,all held by four of the funds.\n“What’s unique about oil and gas companies in the past year is they all came out and released net zero statements,” said Mahmood. The energy industry’s comments are in response to the Paris Agreement on climate change goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.\n“The assumption is they are the most carbon intensive companies,” Mahmood said, but he noted that the most carbon-intensive funds were not necessarily those with energy holdings.\nThe extent to which a fund is carbon intensive is based on the carbon intensity of its individual stock holdings. For instance, iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF had the highest amount of energy holdings among the 20 funds, at 5.2%. But it was rated moderate in terms of carbon intensity.\nIn the utilities sector, another area thought to be carbon intensive, the top holding among the funds wasAmerican Water Works, held by eight funds.Eversource Energy and Consolidated Edison were next, each held by six funds.\nThe top financial firms held by the funds were Charles Schwab,CME Group,Marsh and McLennan,Moody’s and BlackRock,in that order. Each were held by seven of the funds.\nCommunications services were led by Alphabet. The next most widely held names were Discovery,Electronic Arts, and Cable One.\nThermo Fisher Scientific was the most widely held health company, appearing in 10 funds. That was followed by Danaher Corp,Agilent Technologies and Cerner Corp.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"hasMoreComments":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":12,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false}}