{"id":5052,"date":"2026-07-07T07:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/07\/esg-powerhouse-how-the-ishares-msci-kld-400-social-etf-soared-22-by-eschewing-meta-while-embracing-ai-giants\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T07:19:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:19:24","slug":"esg-powerhouse-how-the-ishares-msci-kld-400-social-etf-soared-22-by-eschewing-meta-while-embracing-ai-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/07\/esg-powerhouse-how-the-ishares-msci-kld-400-social-etf-soared-22-by-eschewing-meta-while-embracing-ai-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"ESG Powerhouse: How the iShares MSCI KLD 400 Social ETF Soared 22% by Eschewing Meta While Embracing AI Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iShares MSCI KLD 400 Social ETF (DSI) has achieved an impressive 22.29% return over the past year, largely driven by its strategic investments in AI infrastructure and megacap software giants like NVIDIA, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Intel. Notably, DSI deliberately excludes Meta Platforms due to ESG concerns related to governance, privacy, and social impact, a decision that proved beneficial as Meta shares declined during the same period. While demonstrating strong performance, the fund&#8217;s concentrated exposure to a few top tech names introduces a degree of risk tied to AI market sentiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iShares MSCI KLD 400 Social ETF (DSI) has achieved an impressive 22.29% return over the past year, largely driven by its strategic investments in AI infrastructure and megacap software giants like NVIDIA, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Intel. Notably, DSI deliberately excludes Meta Platforms due to ESG concerns related to governance, privacy, and social impact, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/247wallst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/imageForEntry13-oyA.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-technology"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/247wallst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/imageForEntry13-oyA.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}