Thematic investing is an approach which focuses on predicted long-term trends rather than specific companies or sectors, enabling investors to access structural shifts that can change an entire industry. At the centre of iShares’ Thematic investing philosophy lies 5 megatrends: rapid urbanisation, climate change and resource scarcity, emerging global wealth, demographics and social change – all driven by the final megatrend: technological breakthrough.
A confluence of these global megatrends is prompting structural shifts in many industries and changing the drivers of companies’ earnings.
Capital at risk. The value of investments and the income from them can fall as well as rise and are not guaranteed. Investors may not get back the amount originally invested.