DWS launches ESG versions of its factor ETFs

Based on 2014 ETFs

Elliot Gulliver-Needham
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DWS has launched four new ETFs, offering investors an ESG lens on its existing equity factor funds.

The new ETFs track value, momentum, quality and minimum volatility equity factors, while including ESG criteria on their underlying indices through tracking different variants of the MSCI World Factor Low Carbon SRI Screened Select series. Global ETF assets surge 13.5% in H1 2023 DWS said that unlike traditional market capitalisation-based index methods, factor-based approaches target individual sources of return. The four ETFs listed on the London Stock Exchange yesterday (18 July), having listed on Deutsche Börse earlier this week, and all carry total expense ratios of 0.25%....

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