Investing in Environmental Social Governance (ESG) ETFs

¹ State Street Global Advisors, February 2022, based on Morningstar data as of 31 January 2022.

² State Street Global Advisors. Estimated and unaudited ESG AUM as of 31 December 2021 for client mandates in the following categories: negative/exclusionary screening, norms-based screening, best-in-class investment selection, and sustainability-themed investing, as defined by United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing (UNPRI) as:

• Negative/exclusionary screening: The exclusion from a fund or portfolio of certain sectors, companies or practices based on specific ESG criteria.
• Norms-based Screening: Screening of investments against minimum standards of business practice based on international norms.
• Positive/best-in-class screening: investment in sectors, companies or projects selected for positive ESG performance relative to industry peers.
• Sustainability themed investing: Investment in themes or assets specifically related to sustainability (for example clean energy, green technology or sustainable agriculture).
  

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Bonds generally present less short-term risk and volatility than stocks, but contain interest rate risk (as interest rates raise, bond prices usually fall); issuer default risk; issuer credit risk; liquidity risk; and inflation risk. These effects are usually pronounced for longer-term securities. Any fixed income security sold or redeemed prior to maturity may be subject to a substantial gain or loss.

International Government bonds and corporate bonds generally have more moderate short term price fluctuations than stocks, but provide lower potential long-term returns. Investing in foreign domiciled securities may involve risk of capital loss from unfavourable fluctuation in currency values, withholding taxes, from differences in generally accepted accounting principles or from economic or political instability in other nations.

Equity securities may fluctuate in value and can decline significantly in response to the activities of individual companies and general market and economic conditions.

The returns on a portfolio of securities which exclude companies that do not meet the portfolio's specified ESG criteria may trail the returns on a portfolio of securities which include such companies. A portfolio's ESG criteria may result in the portfolio investing in industry sectors or securities which underperform the market as a whole.

Responsible-Factor (R-Factor™) scoring is designed by State Street to reflect certain ESG characteristics and does not represent investment performance. Results generated out of the scoring model is based on sustainability and corporate governance dimensions of a scored entity.

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