BlackRock Impact World Equity Fund: Enabling investors to do more than simply achieve a financial return

With the growing demand, and greater opportunity, for investment approaches that bring together positive social or environmental outcomes and financial results, BlackRock offers the BlackRock Impact World Equity Fund for Australian investors. Using the MSCI World index as a benchmark and sophisticated data tools to identify specific impact insights between 400-600 securities are chosen for the portfolio.

Without standard impact outcome reporting across companies, the BlackRock's Active Equity Team uses a repeatable investment approach and new sophisticated data analytic techniques to identify insights about companies that can meet the criteria set for the fund. Though not reflective of the complete model, examples below show the societal impact areas of the fund:

Health:
Global Diseases Burden and Clinical Trial Research.

Environment:
Green Technology & Innovation, Carbon Intensity of Production, Environmental Focus at the Company.

Citizenship:
Employee Treatment & Sentiment, Gender & Diversity Aware and Less Controversial Businesses

More information on the fund can be found HERE.