iShares KLD Select Social Index Fund

• Commentary: Money Management: What Is Socially Responsible Investing?

With the oil still flowing in the Gulf of Mexico, investors are furious at the companies involved -- BP, Transocean and Halliburton among them. Many investors, as a result, have started to rekindle an interest in socially responsible investing.

... debuted in 2005 with the launch of the iShares KLD Select Social Index Fund (KLD) and has develop...

• Daily Record (Rochester, NY)
• June 29, 2010

• Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes: International Securities Exchange, LLC,

... on the following seven Premium Products: iShares Dow Jones U.S. Basic Materials Sector Index Fund (... Value Index Fund (``IVE''),\7\ iShares KLD Select Social Index Fund (``KLD''), and iShares KLD 400 S...

• FR, April 10, 2007
• Notices
• Securities and Exchange Commission

• Barclays Global Investors Announces the First U.S. Exchange-Traded Fund for Socially Responsible Investors.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The First iShares(R) ETF for Socially Responsible Investors Tracks tthe KLD Select Social(SM) Index, an Innovative Index that Seeks t...

• Business Wire
• January 31, 2005

• Shopping for the Right Etf

With the plethora of exchange traded funds (ETF), it is hard to determine which one is right for you. ETFs within the same asset class tend to demonstrate similar market performance, but there are significant differences in risk and return between asset classes. The earmarks of a value stock are a high dividend yield, a low price-to-earnings ratio, a low price-to-book ratio and a modest outlook. Of these, the price-to-book ratio may be the most informative, as it captures one of the fundamental differences between value and growth stocks. Bond ETFs pay cash dividends monthly, and dividends may be automatically re-invested. Because bonds in the index portfolio mature and must be replaced, bond ETFs are more likely to accrue capital gains than stock ETFs. Meanwhile, gold has long been con...

... performance can be attributed to his selection of asset class. If the name of the ETF does not id... that track fixed-income indexes are all iShares and include short-, mediumand long-term Lehman Tre... group comprises funds like the KLD Select Social Index Fund, and PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energ...

• Futures; Chicago
• Vol. 36 Nbr. 4, March 2007

• Saving and Investing: Five Funky Etfs

For Amy and Eric Schorn, investing is simple. The Dallas couple own only a few stock funds, but each fund invests in different kinds of companies. What's more, their funds require virtually no monitoring, boast low expense ratios and are almost certain to outpace the vast majority of competing funds. The Schorns' secret? They invest in exchange-traded funds, the fastest-growing segment of the fund industry. From none a dozen years ago, there are now more than 175 ETFs holding about $228 billion in assets. Not bad for products that are essentially index funds that mimic market barometers.

...-- IShares Comex Gold Trust (symbol IAU) is designed to follo...-- IShares Dow Jones Select Dividend (DVY) tracks an index that focuses on sto...-- IShares KLD Select Social (KLD) is the first socially screened ETF. Launched...

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• July 18, 2005