ESG ETF Overview

MSCI ESG Research LLC evaluates companies with regard to their risks and opportunities around environmental issues, social and impact investing, and good governance practices. MSCI coverage includes more than 11,800 issuers of equities and bonds, across more than 400,000 individual securities, leveraging their research to create ESG scores and metrics for approximately 24,000 ETFs and mutual funds.

ETF.com is proud to offer MSCI ESG ratings to help our users better understand and measure the sustainability characteristics of the total ETF portfolio, and rank or screen ETFs based on a diverse set of ESG exposure categories.

Currently, these are the highest ESG-rated U.S.-traded ETFs.

With 50 ETFs traded on the U.S. markets, ESG ETFs have total assets under management of $134.96B. The average expense ratio is 0.41%. ESG ETFs can be found in the following asset classes:

  • Equity

The largest ESG ETF is the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund XLV with $38.16B in assets. In the last trailing year, the best-performing ESG ETF was ITA at 0.57%. The most recent ETF launched in the ESG space was the iShares Emergent Food and AgTech Multisector ETF IVEG on 04/25/22.

Top ETF Performers

SMH VanEck Semiconductor ETF 4.39%
IGV iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF 4.02%
SOXQ Invesco PHLX Semiconductor ETF 3.37%
SOXX iShares Semiconductor ETF 3.03%
XLP Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund 2.51%

Bottom ETF Performers

NUMV Nuveen ESG Mid-Cap Value ETF -10.22%
RDIV Invesco S&P Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF -9.71%
BSEA ETFMG Breakwave Sea Decarbonization Tech ETF -9.63%
FDD First Trust Stoxx European Select Dividend Index Fund -7.24%
FTXR First Trust Nasdaq Transportation ETF -7.09%

Top Creations

ITA iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF 394.80
SMH VanEck Semiconductor ETF 62.19
NULV Nuveen ESG Large-Cap Value ETF 42.32
HDEF Xtrackers MSCI EAFE High Dividend Yield Equity ETF 29.78
RXL ProShares Ultra Health Care 13.51

Top Redemptions

FXN First Trust Energy AlphaDEX Fund -1,027.28
HDV iShares Core High Dividend ETF -475.15
XLP Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund -315.14
IXJ iShares Global Healthcare ETF -267.24
RDIV Invesco S&P Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF -245.02

AUM Winners

NUDV Nuveen ESG Dividend ETF 30.95%
EGIS 2ndVote Society Defended ETF 7.09%
IGV iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF 6.40%
SOXX iShares Semiconductor ETF 5.56%
IXJ iShares Global Healthcare ETF 2.19%

AUM Losers

FLZA Franklin FTSE South Africa ETF -35.64%
RXL ProShares Ultra Health Care -20.44%
FXN First Trust Energy AlphaDEX Fund -18.10%
IHF iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF -14.71%
RDIV Invesco S&P Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF -14.42%

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