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A bespoke report produced in partnership with iShares, examining developments in environmental, social and governance investing focused investment activity. The report brings together a cross section of influential asset owner groups within investment management and asset allocation roles to discuss:

  • What is ESG Investing? What does it help investors accomplish? How is it different from SRI or Impact investing?
  • How have companies started to make efforts to incorporate their social and environment views in their portfolios? How has this evolved over the last 10 years?
  • What does the demand look like for ESG strategies globally and what are the growth projections?
  • What has the performance impact been with these strategies over the past 10 years and what are the exceptions over the next 5 years?

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The evolution of ESG and sustainable investment

SECTION 1

SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT AND THE RISE OF ESG

1.1 Just what is ESG investing and how has far has it developed beyond ethical investment?

Interviewer:

Pádraig Floyd, Consultant Publisher, Clear Path Analysis

Interviewee:

John McKinley, Founding member of the BlackRock Sustainable Investments team

1.2 INFOGRAPHIC: ESG IN NUMBERS

Blackrock

SECTION 2

SOUNDS GOOD, BUT CAN IT REALLY WORK?

2.1 ROUNDTABLE DEBATE: How should investors balance ESG within their investment portfolios?

Interviewer:

Pádraig Floyd, Consultant Publisher, Clear Path Analysis

Interviewee:

Luke Hildyard, policy lead, stewardship and corporate governance, Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association

Bill Trythall, pensioner director, USS

Isabelle Rucart, EMEA Sustainable Investing Strategist, Blackrock

SECTION 3

PUTTING YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS: HOW ESG DRIVES LONG TERM RETURNS

3.1 INTERVIEW: Jutta Hinrichs, head of ethics and sustainability at Steyler Bank explains how ethics is not a dirty word and how ESG is not only good for society, but performance.

Interviewer:

Pádraig Floyd, Consultant Publisher, Clear Path Analysis

Interviewee:

Jutta Hinrichs, Head of Ethics and sustainability, Steyler Bank

SECTION 4

PUT A TIGER IN YOUR INVESTMENT TANK

4.1 ROUNDTABLE DEBATE: Why ESG matters and how it can deliver the performance institutional investors require

Moderator:

Pádraig Floyd, Consultant Publisher, Clear Path Analysis

Panellist:

Michael Marshall, responsible investment officer, West Midlands Pension Fund

Diandra Soobiah, Head of Responsible Investment, NEST

Mark Thompson, chief investment officer, HSBC Pension Fund

John McKinley

Founding member of the BlackRock Sustainable Investments team

Isabelle Rucart

EMEA Sustainable Investing Strategist, Blackrock

Luke Hildyard

Policy lead, stewardship and corporate governance, Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association

Bill Trythall

Pensioner director, USS

Diandra Soobiah

Head of responsible investment, NEST

Jutta Hinrichs

Head of ethics and sustainability , Steyler Bank 

Mark Thompson

Chief Investment Officer, HSBC Pension Fund

Michael Marshall

Responsible investment officer, West Midlands Pension Fund

iShares® is a global leader in exchange-traded funds (ETFs), with more than a decade of expertise and commitment to individual and institutional investors of all sizes. With over 800 funds globally across multiple asset classes and strategies and more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management as of September 30, 2017, iShares helps clients around the world build the core of their portfolios, meet specific investment goals and implement market views. iShares funds are powered by the expert portfolio and risk management of BlackRock, trusted to manage more money than any other investment firm1.

1 Based on $5.977 trillion in AUM as of 9/30/17

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