- ESGO provides investors with a unique opportunity to access the 25 best-in-class ESG gold miners and is the only gold mining ETF in Europe with SFDR Article 8 classification.
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October 2023, London
HANetf, Europe’s first and only independent white-label UCITS ETF and ETC platform[1], and leading provider of digital asset ETPs, is delighted to announce that AuAg ESG Gold Mining UCITS ETF (ESGO) has registered increased interest from institutional investors reached $61.8 million assets under management (AUM).
At the start of the year, ESGO’s AUM stood at $6.2 million, but this number has now exceeded $61.8 million, representing a growth of 905.4% year-to-date. [2]
ESGO provides investors with a unique opportunity to align their gold mining exposure with ESG principles. Gold mining requires shifting large amount of Earth, which generates considerable greenhouse gas emissions. But by employing an ESG-screen, ESGO allows for exposure to companies in the sector with lower carbon footprints.
Despite the string of declassifications at the start of 2023, ESGO remains the only Article 8 gold mining ETF under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).[3] This makes the fund unique in its objective to turn a “brown” industry green.
The ETF tracks the Solactive AuAg ESG Gold Mining Index (SOLESGON), providing equal-weighted exposure to the 25 gold mining stocks with the best-in-class ESG risk scores. The equal weighting helps to avoid concentration risks, and the possible underweighting of a few dominant mega-companies may also provide a beneficial return profile for ESGO during bull markets for gold miners.
Hector McNeil, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of HANetf, comments: "ESGO has seen incredible growth this year, which indicates to us that there is increasing demand for ESG-focused investment solutions within the gold mining sector. While many European funds were downgraded from SFDR Article 8 or 9 at the beginning of the year, ESGO has remained firm in its sustainable focus.
“AuAg ESG Gold Mining UCITS ETF (ESGO) seeks to offer exposure to an equal-weighted basket of 25 ESG-screened companies in the gold mining industry, using Sustainalytics to screen the mining universe for their ESG credentials and attributing a risk score based on their findings.”
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