Looking for a Greener Way to Invest in Real Estate?
Rising property prices and the popularity of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments make for a strong combination with that Invesco MSCI Green Building ETF (GBLD).
GLBD offers a unique investment opportunity as the global movement towards energy efficiency is slowly permeating the real estate industry. Therefore, there are growth opportunities for large and mid-cap companies to integrate green ideas into their business models, or for emerging small-cap growth companies developing new technologies.
The Fund seeks to replicate the investment results of the MSCI Global Green Building Index. The index is made up of stocks that are also part of the MSCI ACWI Investable Market Index, a stock index made up of more than 8,700 stocks from large, medium and small capitalization companies in developed and emerging markets around the world.
“The Invesco MSCI Green Building ETF tracks an index of companies that deal with ‘green building’, such as an ETF database analysis explained.
As mentioned earlier, there are opportunities in companies of different market capitalizations.
“The fund invests in small, mid and large-cap companies from around the world,” the analysis continues. “Those who generate 50% or more of their sales with green building are included in the index. The index excludes companies that have faced serious controversy over environmental, social and governance issues over the past three years, as well as companies involved in controversial weapons. “
Invesco’s commitment to ESG
GBLD is just one of many ETFs that underscore Invesco’s focus on ESG. Investors can also take advantage of these opportunities by selecting specific niches in the ESG market by choosing areas such as solar energy, water resources or, in the case of GLBD, green buildings, to name a few.
“ESG is very important to us and we have long been a leader in clean energy as we launched the first clean energy ETF in 2005, which is the first clean energy index. We continue our innovations today including the recently launched “The Invesco MSCI Green Building ETF (ticker: GBLD), which invests in companies that build green buildings that are essential to decarbonizing our planet,” stated the Invesco website . “Our full line of ESG ETFs consists of ten unique strategies, seven of which have a track record of at least five years – most in the industry.”
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