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• Widespread appetite for embedding sustainability into asset allocation decisions.
Nick Hutton, head of UK iShares & Wealth at BlackRock, said: What we are seeing as the UK wealth management industry evolves is a fundamental and irreversible shift towards a whole portfolio approach that aims to identify true sources of portfolio returns that is putting a spotlight on the role of index funds and ETFs. Faced with fee compression, regulation, and the centralisation of business models, indexing can help clients build more efficient, more nimble portfolios than ever before.
Looking more closely at these three key market trends, BlackRock said the pandemic-related market turmoil of early 2020 provided the most significant stress test of the resiliency of bond ETFs .
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Ursula Marchioni (BlackRock), Ewa Jackson (BlackRock), Aurélie Ratte (MSCI), Carey Evans (BlackRock) & Victor van Hoorn (Eurosif).
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Vast amounts of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data has been generated as companies tout their ESG credentials, but experts say important gaps are still missing.
An abundance of ESG data is available to investors that want to integrate ESG into their investment strategies, but according to experts large data gaps still exist and some of the most relevant information remains missing.
Speaking at an expert roundtable, entitled
ESG integration from “why” to “how”, hosted by BlackRock on 17 November, Aurélie Ratte, Head of Editorial Governance, MSCI ESG Research, said that while there had been a surge in corporate disclosures, continued issues around data availability and consistency had created huge ESG data gaps. “It is a paradox because we always hear there is a lot of ESG data.