Herb Blank
Herb Blank is Senior Quantitative Strategist for ValuEngine, a leading provider of quantitative reports and analysis for US Equities for more than 24 years. His ETF blog entries are available at http://blog.valuengine.com. Additionally, Herb heads the Product Strategy consultancy at Global Finesse LLC, a 10-year consulting firm serving the FinTech and investment industries. He provides ESG, ETF and alternative data set expertise. During the past 35 years Herb has been involved in quantitative risk management, ETF and index product development, ESG modeling, portfolio management and product strategy. In fact, Herb was the first portfolio manager of ETFs in the US, managing nine ETFs for Deutsche Bank Securities in 1996. He also assisted in the launches of iShares for Barclays Global Investors (now part of BlackRock) and GLD for the World Gold Council. Other industry achievements include serving as product manager for ESG and Structured Solutions for S-Network Global Indexes. Since managing the Fidelity Social Principles Fund in 1987, Herb has been involved in what ESG investments for more than 30 years and provided onsite Social Research quantitative modeling services for the Calvert Investments Social Research Group. He also created industry-specific ESG models for 5,000 companies covered by Thomson Reuters Asset4 and co-authored "Best Practices in ESG Investing" article published in Journal of Investing.
