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DWS Launches Global Xtrackers Infrastructure ETF with ESG Criteria

10/11/2024

  • Index reflects the performance of global infrastructure companies that meet specific environmental and social criteria

  • ETF tracks the Dow Jones Brookfield Global Green Infrastructure Index

  • Flat fee of 0.35 per cent per year

DWS is expanding its range of Xtrackers ETFs with a product that reflects the performance of infrastructure stocks meeting environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria. This is the first ETF to track the ESG variant of a broad, traditional infrastructure index.
 
With the Xtrackers Global Infrastructure ESG UCITS ETF 1C, DWS offers access to companies that provide energy, transport, and communications infrastructure, among others. Companies in these segments are expected to show comparatively lower fluctuations in their fundamentals across the economic cycle.

The ETF was listed on the London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse this week, with a flat fee of 0.35% per year. The ETF aims to closely track the Dow Jones Brookfield Global Green Infrastructure Index. The index, which has been calculated since 2016, reflects the performance of 73 listed infrastructure companies, most of which are based  in industrialized countries and meet  ESG criteria.

Electricity utilities make up the largest portion of the index, at around 32%, followed by telecommunications infrastructure, primarily cell tower REITs (19%), multi-utilities (11%), and construction and engineering (10%). The oil and gas storage and transport sector, which is heavily represented in traditional infrastructure sector indices, constitutes less than 1% of the Dow Jones Brookfield Global Green Infrastructure Index. 

In terms of countries, the USA dominates with 15 listed companies and an index weighting of over 46%, followed by Spain, France and the UK each with five companies and a cumulative index weighting of 29.5%. The index also includes 13 Chinese companies, with a combined weighting of 2.6%. The largest individual stocks are the US transmission tower operator American Tower, with an index weighting of approximately 9.5%, and the French transport infrastructure and construction group Vinci, at 7.9%.

“The need for infrastructure beyond fossil fuels is growing rapidly as governments and companies worldwide seek to develop more sustainable infrastructure focused on  electrification and computing,” said Michael Mohr, Head of Products at Xtrackers, DWS. “The index offers broad, global infrastructure exposure, but its focus is particularly on infrastructure projects that rely on greener technologies.”

Product information

ETF nameUnderlying IndexISINAppropriation of earningsTickerFlat-rate fee p.a.
Xtrackers Global Infrastructure ESG UCITS ETF 1CDow Jones Brookfield Global Green Infrastructure IndexIE00BYZNF849accumulatingXIFE0.35 %

Source: DWS, as of 11 October 2024

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