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BlackRock (AM Ireland ltd & Fund Managers Ltd)

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Last amended date: Sep 2025

Assets under management
Total Screened Themed SRI Assets:
£m
Total Responsible Ownership Assets:
£m
Total Assets Under Management:
£8974571.00m (as at: Mar 2025)
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About The Business
Responsible ownership / stewardship policy or strategy (AFM companywide)

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ESG / SRI engagement (AFM companywide)

Find fund / asset management companies that actively encourage higher 'environmental, social and governance' and / or 'sustainable and responsible investment' practices across investee companies - typically where the aim is to encourage positive change that is aligned with the best interests of investors. Strategies vary. See additional information and options.

Vote all* shares at AGMs / EGMs (AFM companywide)

Find fund / asset managers that vote all* the shares they own at Annual General Meetings and Extraordinary General Meetings. A commitment to voting shares is a key indicator of 'responsible share ownership' demonstrating their support for or disagreement with management policy. (*situations can legitimately, occasionally occur where voting proves impossible, but in principle all shares should be voted.)

Sustainable property strategy (AFM companywide)

Find fund / asset management companies that take sustainability criteria into account when selecting and/or managing all of their property / real estate investments.

Senior management KPIs include environmental goals (AFM companywide)

The leadership team of this fund / asset manager have performance targets linked to environmental goals.

Invests in newly listed companies (AFM companywide)

This fund / asset management company invests in companies which have recently listed on a stock exchange (which is important as it can help grow new businesses).

Invests in new sustainability linked bond issuances (AFM companywide)

Fund / asset management company has investments in bonds designed to meet sustainability requirements - however these assets may not be 'ringfenced' for this purpose. See website for details.

Offer unstructured intermediary sustainable investment training

Fund management entity offers unstructured intermediary training on sustainable investment (ie for financial advisers and wealth managers)

Collaborations & Affiliations
PRI signatory

Find fund / asset management companies that have signed up to the UN backed 'Principles of Responsible Investment'.

TNFD forum member (AFM companywide)

A member of the Taskforce for Nature Related Financial Disclosures group which aims to aid risk management and shift money towards nature-positive outcomes.

Resources
In-house responsible ownership / voting expertise

Find fund / asset management companies that employ people to steer and support fund managers in voting shares at company AGM's and EGMs in ways that are consistent with encouraging higher ESG/sustainability standards.

Employ specialist ESG / SRI / sustainability researchers

Find a fund / asset management company that directly employs specialist ESG/SRI/sustainability researchers or analysts. This allows asset managers to discuss environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities directly with companies.

Accreditations
UK Stewardship Code signatory (AFM companywide)

Find fund / asset managers that are signatories to the FRC UK Stewardship Code, which sets out a framework for constructive investor / investee relations where managers are encouraged to behave like responsible, typically longer term 'company owners'.

Engagement Approach
Engaging on climate change issues

Fund / asset manager has stewardship /responsible ownership strategy that is focused on addressing climate change with investee assets.

Engaging with fossil fuel companies on climate change

Fund / asset manager has a stewardship /responsible ownership strategy that involves working with fossil fuel companies on climate change related issues. See fund manager website for details.

Engaging to reduce plastics pollution / waste

Fund / asset manager has stewardship /responsible ownership strategy with involves encouraging investee asset to reduce plastic waste and pollution.

Engaging on biodiversity / nature issues

The fund / asset manager has a responsible ownership / stewardship strategy that focuses on biodiversity and nature issues relating to the assets they invest the aim of which will be to reduce harm and or deliver improvement. Strategies vary. https://tnfd.global

Engaging on human rights issues

Fund / asset manager has responsible ownership / stewardship strategy in place which aims to address human rights issues in investee companies (and potentially their suppliers) with the aim of raising standards

Engaging on labour / employment issues

Fund / asset manager has responsible ownership / stewardship strategy in place that aims to improve labour standards for the benefit of employees in investee companies (and potentially their suppliers)

Engaging on diversity, equality & / or inclusion issues

Fund / asset management company has a stewardship strategy in place which involves working to raise diversity, equality and inclusion standards across investee assets

Engaging to stop modern slavery

Fund / asset manager is working with the assets they hold to help stamp out modern slavery - where direct or indirect company employees are exploited for business benefits.

Engaging on governance issues

Fund / asset managers have stewardship strategies in place that focus on improving governance standards across investee assets

Engaging on mental health issues

Fund / asset manager has stewardship strategy in place which involves discussing mental health issues with investee companies - with the aim of raising standards

Engaging on responsible supply chain issues

Has a stewardship / responsible ownership strategy that encourages responsible supply chain - ie the managers will discuss environmental, social and governance issues with investee companies with the aim of raising standards

Engaging on the responsible use of AI

Working to address sustainability, ESG and related concerns around artificial intelligence.

Stewardship escalation policy

Escalation policies describe how a manager will proceed if stewardship / engagement activity is not successful in the short term.

Climate & Net Zero Transition
Encourage carbon / greenhouse gas reduction (AFM companywide)

Find fund / asset management companies that are working with the companies they invest in to encourage reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.

‘Forward Looking Climate Metrics’ published / ITR (AFM companywide)

Finds organisations / fund managers that have published ‘forward looking climate metrics’ e.g. 'implied temperature rise' data that are a total of the asset management company's share (% owned) of all the investee company emissions of the assets they manage, as well as their own direct and other indirect emissions.

In-house carbon / GHG reduction policy (AFM companywide)

Find fund / asset management companies that are working to reduce their own (fund management company) carbon/greenhouse gas emissions.

Transparency
Publish responsible ownership / stewardship report (AFM companywide)

Find fund / asset management companies that publish a report detailing their responsible investment ownership - also known as 'Stewardship' - activity.

Full stewardship / responsible ownership policy information on company website

Find fund / asset management companies that publish information about their sustainable and responsible investment strategies on their company website.

Publish full voting record (AFM companywide)

Fund / asset management companies that publish a full record of how they vote their shares at AGMs (annual general meetings) and EGMs (extraordinary general meetings). Voting strategies have an important role to play encouraging higher environmental, social and governance standards.

Resources, Affiliations & Corporate Strategies:

Teams with sustainability-related areas of focus:

Sustainable & Transition Solutions team (30+ professionals) leads BlackRock's sustainability and transition strategy, drives cross-functional change, supports client and external engagement, powers product ideation, and embeds sustainable expertise across the firm in partnership with other teams.     

Sustainable Investment Research & Analytics (10+ professionals) within the BlackRock Investment Institute produces thought leadership and research on the implications of the transition on portfolio construction. They produce macro and portfolio research, including integrating climate into BlackRock's Capital Market assumptions ("CMAs").

BlackRock Investment Stewardship (60+ professionals) serves as an important link between clients and the companies they invest in, engaging with investee company leadership and proxy voting at shareholder meetings when authorized by clients to do so. Where appropriate, BIS engages with companies on climate-related issues

BlackRock Active Investment Stewardship (10+ professionals) partners with BlackRock’s active investment teams on company engagement and voting in relation to their holdings.  BAIS was established in January 2025 to more closely align the range of investment strategies on the active investment platform. 

Corporate Sustainability leads efforts to drive operational sustainability, establish sustainable business programs and policies, and engage key stakeholders on BlackRock’s contribution towards the low-carbon transition and establish BlackRock’s operational sustainability goals.

 Sustainability incorporated into broader functional responsibilities:

Investment Divisions: BlackRock investment divisions include Portfolio Management Group, Global Markets & Index Investments, and Equity Private Markets. Active portfolio teams manage exposure to financially material E, S, and/or G risks, and consider financially material E, S, and/or G information in their investment processes, as applicable and consistent with client goals. Investment teams can often have sustainability-focused units (e.g. Fixed Income ESG Investment Team), as well as investment themes dedicated to sustainable funds (e.g Decarbonization Partners, and Climate Infrastructure)

Risk & Quantitative Analysis Group (RQA) is BlackRock's risk management function. The group is responsible for BlackRock’s Investment and Enterprise risk management frameworks and serves as a key part of the second line of defense along with BlackRock Legal and Compliance. RQA evaluates investment risks, including financially material E, S and/or G risks as part of regular investment risk management processes and, where applicable, during regular reviews with portfolio managers. This helps to ensure that such risks are understood, deliberate, and consistent with client objectives. RQA also has a dedicated Sustainability Risk group that partners with risk managers and businesses to oversee sustainability risk across the platform.

Global Product Solutions leads sustainable product innovation and development, governance, and strategy across the global product platform.

Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) strives to engage constructively in financial services public policy dialogue, including in relation to climate risk and sustainability disclosures, through participation in industry initiatives, engagement with regulators and standard setters around the world, and through the whitepapers, comment letters and consultation responses regularly published on BlackRock's website.

Aladdin makes available climate and ESG data and physical and transition risk analytics into investors' workflows, regulatory reporting, and decarbonization/temperature alignment analysis delivered through Aladdin. The Aladdin Sustainability Lab (90+ professionals) oversees Aladdin's sustainability-, transition-, and climate-related data, analytics and innovation, including BlackRock’s Aladdin Climate platform.

Enterprise Services includes the Health & Safety team which monitors adherence to local environmental regulations. The Corporate Real Estate, Space Planning, Critical Infrastructure and Workplace Experience teams work alongside key stakeholders such as the employee-run Green Team Network ("GTN") to plan and implement sustainability efforts in offices. The Business Continuity Management team manages disaster recovery planning, strategy, and crisis management activities. 

About The Business
Responsible ownership / stewardship policy or strategy (AFM companywide)

Finds fund / asset management companies that have a published company wide stewardship, engagement and / or responsible ownership policy or strategy that covers all investments. Stewardship typically involves encouraging higher ESG standards through voting and dialogue.

ESG / SRI engagement (AFM companywide)

Find fund / asset management companies that actively encourage higher 'environmental, social and governance' and / or 'sustainable and responsible investment' practices across investee companies - typically where the aim is to encourage positive change that is aligned with the best interests of investors. Strategies vary. See additional information and options.

Vote all* shares at AGMs / EGMs (AFM companywide)

Find fund / asset managers that vote all* the shares they own at Annual General Meetings and Extraordinary General Meetings. A commitment to voting shares is a key indicator of 'responsible share ownership' demonstrating their support for or disagreement with management policy. (*situations can legitimately, occasionally occur where voting proves impossible, but in principle all shares should be voted.)

Sustainable property strategy (AFM companywide)

Find fund / asset management companies that take sustainability criteria into account when selecting and/or managing all of their property / real estate investments.

Senior management KPIs include environmental goals (AFM companywide)

The leadership team of this fund / asset manager have performance targets linked to environmental goals.

Invests in newly listed companies (AFM companywide)

This fund / asset management company invests in companies which have recently listed on a stock exchange (which is important as it can help grow new businesses).

Invests in new sustainability linked bond issuances (AFM companywide)

Fund / asset management company has investments in bonds designed to meet sustainability requirements - however these assets may not be 'ringfenced' for this purpose. See website for details.

Offer unstructured intermediary sustainable investment training

Fund management entity offers unstructured intermediary training on sustainable investment (ie for financial advisers and wealth managers)

Collaborations & Affiliations
PRI signatory

Find fund / asset management companies that have signed up to the UN backed 'Principles of Responsible Investment'.

TNFD forum member (AFM companywide)

A member of the Taskforce for Nature Related Financial Disclosures group which aims to aid risk management and shift money towards nature-positive outcomes.

Resources
In-house responsible ownership / voting expertise

Find fund / asset management companies that employ people to steer and support fund managers in voting shares at company AGM's and EGMs in ways that are consistent with encouraging higher ESG/sustainability standards.

Employ specialist ESG / SRI / sustainability researchers

Find a fund / asset management company that directly employs specialist ESG/SRI/sustainability researchers or analysts. This allows asset managers to discuss environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities directly with companies.

Accreditations
UK Stewardship Code signatory (AFM companywide)

Find fund / asset managers that are signatories to the FRC UK Stewardship Code, which sets out a framework for constructive investor / investee relations where managers are encouraged to behave like responsible, typically longer term 'company owners'.

Engagement Approach
Engaging on climate change issues

Fund / asset manager has stewardship /responsible ownership strategy that is focused on addressing climate change with investee assets.

Engaging with fossil fuel companies on climate change

Fund / asset manager has a stewardship /responsible ownership strategy that involves working with fossil fuel companies on climate change related issues. See fund manager website for details.

Engaging to reduce plastics pollution / waste

Fund / asset manager has stewardship /responsible ownership strategy with involves encouraging investee asset to reduce plastic waste and pollution.

Engaging on biodiversity / nature issues

The fund / asset manager has a responsible ownership / stewardship strategy that focuses on biodiversity and nature issues relating to the assets they invest the aim of which will be to reduce harm and or deliver improvement. Strategies vary. https://tnfd.global

Engaging on human rights issues

Fund / asset manager has responsible ownership / stewardship strategy in place which aims to address human rights issues in investee companies (and potentially their suppliers) with the aim of raising standards

Engaging on labour / employment issues

Fund / asset manager has responsible ownership / stewardship strategy in place that aims to improve labour standards for the benefit of employees in investee companies (and potentially their suppliers)

Engaging on diversity, equality & / or inclusion issues

Fund / asset management company has a stewardship strategy in place which involves working to raise diversity, equality and inclusion standards across investee assets

Engaging to stop modern slavery

Fund / asset manager is working with the assets they hold to help stamp out modern slavery - where direct or indirect company employees are exploited for business benefits.

Engaging on governance issues

Fund / asset managers have stewardship strategies in place that focus on improving governance standards across investee assets

Engaging on mental health issues

Fund / asset manager has stewardship strategy in place which involves discussing mental health issues with investee companies - with the aim of raising standards

Engaging on responsible supply chain issues

Has a stewardship / responsible ownership strategy that encourages responsible supply chain - ie the managers will discuss environmental, social and governance issues with investee companies with the aim of raising standards

Engaging on the responsible use of AI

Working to address sustainability, ESG and related concerns around artificial intelligence.

Stewardship escalation policy

Escalation policies describe how a manager will proceed if stewardship / engagement activity is not successful in the short term.

Climate & Net Zero Transition
Encourage carbon / greenhouse gas reduction (AFM companywide)

Find fund / asset management companies that are working with the companies they invest in to encourage reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.

‘Forward Looking Climate Metrics’ published / ITR (AFM companywide)

Finds organisations / fund managers that have published ‘forward looking climate metrics’ e.g. 'implied temperature rise' data that are a total of the asset management company's share (% owned) of all the investee company emissions of the assets they manage, as well as their own direct and other indirect emissions.

In-house carbon / GHG reduction policy (AFM companywide)

Find fund / asset management companies that are working to reduce their own (fund management company) carbon/greenhouse gas emissions.

Transparency
Publish responsible ownership / stewardship report (AFM companywide)

Find fund / asset management companies that publish a report detailing their responsible investment ownership - also known as 'Stewardship' - activity.

Full stewardship / responsible ownership policy information on company website

Find fund / asset management companies that publish information about their sustainable and responsible investment strategies on their company website.

Publish full voting record (AFM companywide)

Fund / asset management companies that publish a full record of how they vote their shares at AGMs (annual general meetings) and EGMs (extraordinary general meetings). Voting strategies have an important role to play encouraging higher environmental, social and governance standards.

Teams with sustainability-related areas of focus:

Sustainable & Transition Solutions team (30+ professionals) leads BlackRock's sustainability and transition strategy, drives cross-functional change, supports client and external engagement, powers product ideation, and embeds sustainable expertise across the firm in partnership with other teams.     

Sustainable Investment Research & Analytics (10+ professionals) within the BlackRock Investment Institute produces thought leadership and research on the implications of the transition on portfolio construction. They produce macro and portfolio research, including integrating climate into BlackRock's Capital Market assumptions ("CMAs").

BlackRock Investment Stewardship (60+ professionals) serves as an important link between clients and the companies they invest in, engaging with investee company leadership and proxy voting at shareholder meetings when authorized by clients to do so. Where appropriate, BIS engages with companies on climate-related issues

BlackRock Active Investment Stewardship (10+ professionals) partners with BlackRock’s active investment teams on company engagement and voting in relation to their holdings.  BAIS was established in January 2025 to more closely align the range of investment strategies on the active investment platform. 

Corporate Sustainability leads efforts to drive operational sustainability, establish sustainable business programs and policies, and engage key stakeholders on BlackRock’s contribution towards the low-carbon transition and establish BlackRock’s operational sustainability goals.

 Sustainability incorporated into broader functional responsibilities:

Investment Divisions: BlackRock investment divisions include Portfolio Management Group, Global Markets & Index Investments, and Equity Private Markets. Active portfolio teams manage exposure to financially material E, S, and/or G risks, and consider financially material E, S, and/or G information in their investment processes, as applicable and consistent with client goals. Investment teams can often have sustainability-focused units (e.g. Fixed Income ESG Investment Team), as well as investment themes dedicated to sustainable funds (e.g Decarbonization Partners, and Climate Infrastructure)

Risk & Quantitative Analysis Group (RQA) is BlackRock's risk management function. The group is responsible for BlackRock’s Investment and Enterprise risk management frameworks and serves as a key part of the second line of defense along with BlackRock Legal and Compliance. RQA evaluates investment risks, including financially material E, S and/or G risks as part of regular investment risk management processes and, where applicable, during regular reviews with portfolio managers. This helps to ensure that such risks are understood, deliberate, and consistent with client objectives. RQA also has a dedicated Sustainability Risk group that partners with risk managers and businesses to oversee sustainability risk across the platform.

Global Product Solutions leads sustainable product innovation and development, governance, and strategy across the global product platform.

Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) strives to engage constructively in financial services public policy dialogue, including in relation to climate risk and sustainability disclosures, through participation in industry initiatives, engagement with regulators and standard setters around the world, and through the whitepapers, comment letters and consultation responses regularly published on BlackRock's website.

Aladdin makes available climate and ESG data and physical and transition risk analytics into investors' workflows, regulatory reporting, and decarbonization/temperature alignment analysis delivered through Aladdin. The Aladdin Sustainability Lab (90+ professionals) oversees Aladdin's sustainability-, transition-, and climate-related data, analytics and innovation, including BlackRock’s Aladdin Climate platform.

Enterprise Services includes the Health & Safety team which monitors adherence to local environmental regulations. The Corporate Real Estate, Space Planning, Critical Infrastructure and Workplace Experience teams work alongside key stakeholders such as the employee-run Green Team Network ("GTN") to plan and implement sustainability efforts in offices. The Business Continuity Management team manages disaster recovery planning, strategy, and crisis management activities. 

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