EXPLORE MEGATRENDS BY THEMES
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ISHARES ETFS
Thematic investing focuses on forward-looking themes, including technological advancements like robotics and semiconductors, as well as consumer-driven trends such as electric vehicles and home builders. iShares provides ETFs, along with timely insights and portfolio analysis tools, to help advisors gain exposure to themes that are top of mind for their clients.
81% of investors plan on increasing exposure to thematic ETFs.¹ Explore how iShares can help your clients potentially capture the trend.
AI and Robotics
Exposure to companies at the forefront of robotics and artificial intelligence innovation.
Semiconductors
Exposure to U.S. companies that design, manufacture, and distribute semiconductors.
Self-Driving and Electric Vehicles
Exposure to global stocks along the full value chain of self-driving and EV industries, across sectors and geographies.
BlackRock has identified five trends, or “megatrends;" this sub-set of thematic investing specifically targets long-term themes changing how we live and work. From AI to electric vehicles, megatrend ETFs cut across countries and sectors - making it easy to invest in these trends for the long-term.
Picking single stocks is hard. Broad indexes can water down your theme convictions. Megatrends may allow you to target high-conviction trends without going too broad, in an ever-evolving innovation landscape.
Only 10% of the S&P 500’s largest companies have remained in the top 20 over the last two decades.2
As examples, clean energy and EV supply chains involve companies across 6 different sectors.3 A single sector may no longer fully capture the complete value chain of a theme.
In the last two decades, the U.S. contributed 23% to global R&D growth; while South & Southeast Asia contributed 46%.4
Technology is driving exponential progress in the tech sector and far beyond. Access innovative companies with long-term growth potential in robotics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and more.
Medical breakthroughs are opening the door to longer, healthier living, and virtualization is changing the way we connect with each other. Invest in companies revolutionizing our lives.
Demand for a clean, green tomorrow will advance energy and conservation. Invest in companies who may lead the charge in clean power, electric vehicles and more.
Cities in the developed world are feeling their age. Cities in emerging markets are coming of age. Invest in companies poised to benefit from infrastructure needs in the U.S. and across the globe.
Newly affluent consumers in emerging market economies are transforming global spending and emerging market countries are predicted to represent six out of the seven largest economies by 2050. Invest in the global middle class shaping the future.
Invest in a range of themes with a single ticker - across flagship multi-theme index strategies and active managers.