BlackRock Launches ETF to Capitalize on Aging ‘Megatrend’

Megatrends are set to have a major impact.

Megatrends are set to have a major impact.

We’re all getting older; might as well find a way to monetize it.

BlackRock announced a new lineup of four thematic exchange traded funds (ETFs) that capture investment opportunities created by the global trends towards an aging population, healthcare, robotics and digitalization.

The themes stem from what it calls “widely acknowledged megatrends, which are global economic, social, technological and demographic shifts that can have a major influence on everyday lives and are expected to become more important over the coming decades.”

The ETFs are based off of rules-based, systematic strategy indices built using proprietary databases. The underlying index for each fund has a minimum of 80 investments to avoid concentration.

“Megatrends are affecting the way we live and work,” Tom Fekete, Head of Product for iShares EMEA at BlackRock, said in a statement. “These ETFs look to capture the opportunities created by long-term structural trends, by identifying the companies most aligned to them. They are a new set of tools that investors can use to express their views on these trends, in a transparent, global and cost-efficient way.”

The new ETFs are:

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