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VanEck Launches New Active Municipal Bond ETF (SMI) Focusing on Sustainable Development

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Friday, September 10, 2021

This new ETF enables portfolios to focus on meaningful climate action, increasingly sustainable communities and stronger resilience overall.

Key Points: 
  • This new ETF enables portfolios to focus on meaningful climate action, increasingly sustainable communities and stronger resilience overall.
  • We believe combining active management with the robust analytical data on sustainability provided by HIP results in a compelling, first-to-market municipal bond ETF1.
  • VanEck is a 2017 signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and has decades of experience in fixed income and municipal bond strategies.
  • SMI also illustrates the expansion of the firms sustainable investing offerings, joining last months launch of the VanEck Environmental Sustainability Fund (ENVAX) , the first green bond ETF1, VanEck Green Bond ETF (GRNB) and the VanEck Low Carbon Energy ETF (SMOG) .