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Holly Downes speaks to LGIM’s Rob Martin about the rapidly growing desalination market

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As stress becomes more common, particularly 
in emerging economies, desalination plants help lessen the impacts of 
water scarcity 
in these regions’

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Rob Martin’s biography

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how LGIM’s Clean Water ETF gains exposure 
to desalination

‘Desalination is more attractive as it becomes more cost-competitive, 

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Rob Martin is global head of investment strategy and research for LGIM Real Assets. 
He leads the formation of market and thematic views, with an emphasis on long-term drivers including ESG, and supporting their integration into portfolio strategy. He is 
also responsible for performance assessment and analysis for real assets managed portfolios, driving the selection of objective reference points against which to assess investment performance and extracting value from performance data. Rob joined 
LGIM in October 2006 from Hammerson, where he held the role of head of research. Prior to that he was an economist with the CBI, and previously spent three years in 
a consultancy role in the oil and gas industry.

The L&G Clean Water Ucits ETF has a greater focus on water technology and digital solution providers, which are expected to play a key role in shaping the future landscape of water and creating the solutions to manage water more efficiently. Our investment process combines active research and actively designed investment strategy, leveraging the expertise of third-party experts to obtain a starting universe across all size levels with a higher purity to the clean water theme.

Rob Martin, global head, investment strategy and 
research, Legal & General Investment Management

Investors must recognise the importance of investing in the desalination market in helping increase water security in all regions, according to Rob Martin, global head, investment strategy and research at Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM).