OUR APPROACH TO SUSTAINABLE INVESTING

MAKING INVESTMENTS COUNT

At Carmignac we believe that sustainability is an essential factor in long-term outperformance. There are three ways in which we apply this in our investment approach:

PRAGMATISM

Practical, data-led decision-making focused only on risk-adjusted returns

CHANGE

Investing to drive and harness the transition to a more sustainable future

INSIGHT

Proprietary analysis of change where it’s needed or risk where it’s mispriced

Our investment approach is built to actively harness the potential upside of sustainability across our fund range.

Sustainability in our investment approach

Understanding risk and supporting progress towards a sustainable world

We invest to achieve long-term performance by identifying opportunities for growth or change, mitigating risk, and driving positive outcomes for society and the environment. Sustainability is a key factor in our investment decision-making, applied through clear exclusions, proprietary frameworks for evaluation and ongoing engagement.

Positive & negative screening

Avoiding significant harm and focusing on positive outcome companies

Research & analysis

Proprietary ESG analysis for each security

Stewardship

Engagement and voting to understand risk and drive positive change

Positive & negative screening

We avoid or lean into particular areas of the economy based on activity or behaviour – avoiding significant harm and focusing on positive outcome companies.

HARD, FIRM-WIDE RESTRICTIONS

Based on company activities or business norms, we prohibit investments by all Carmignac-managed funds in companies who generate more than certain percentages of revenues from the following:

  • Controversial weapons;
  • Tobacco;
  • Thermal coal;
  • Highly polluting power generators;
  • Adult entertainment;
  • Global norms breach.

OUTCOMES FRAMEWORK

We identify and prioritise companies generating positive change based on UN SDGs. Companies must meet at least one of the following thresholds:

  • Products and services
    More than 50% of revenue or more than 30% capex related to business activities that have a positive contribution to at least 1 of 9 priority SDGs

  • Operations
    Aligned status for at least 3 out of all 17 SDGs (& 0 misaligned)

Sustainable development goals
1 - No poverty
2 - Zero hunger
3 - Good health and well-being
4 - Quality education
5 - Gender equality
6 - Clean water and sanitation
7 - Affordable and clean energy
8 - Decent work and economic growth
9 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure
10 - Reduced inequalities
11 - Sustainable cities and communities
12 - Responsible consumption and production
13 - Climate action
14 - Life below water
15 - Life on land
16 - Peace, justice and strong institutions
17 - Partnerships for the goals
Sustainable Development Goals 17 of 17 SDGs

Research & analysis

Proprietary ESG analysis is embedded into the selection process for each security, alongside an outcome thesis and metric where relevant.

INSIGHTS THAT DRIVE INVESTMENT DECISIONS TO MEET CLIENTS’ LONG-TERM INTERESTS

PROPRIETARY CORPORATE ESG ANALYSIS & RATINGS

80+ INDICATORS

  • Company reported data
  • Controversy data
  • News sentiment
  • Specialised ESG data
  • Revenue splits

MATERIAL WEIGHTING

Weight of each indicator determined by sector, and by a company’s main sources of revenue

FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS

Quantitative analysis
Relative rating compared to a peer group of companies with specific characteristics:

  • Revenue streams
  • Region
  • Size

Qualitative analysis

  • To overcome data issues (staleness, gaps, bias)
  • Or changes following engagement (better understanding, additional disclosures)

OUTCOME THESIS

Every company rated A-E

  • Key factor in conviction & portfolio weightings
  • No investment below C-rating
  • Ratings & changes prompt engagement & voting

Proprietary sovereign ESG analysis & ratings

STATE-LEVEL INDICATORS

Sophisticated approach to income bias

Environmental

  • Vulnerability to climate physical risks
  • Contribution to climate change and environmental degradation
  • Preparedness and contribution to the climate transition

Social

  • Human capital performance
  • Social development factors

Governance

  • Economic strength
  • Political stability
  • Institutional setting

MATERIAL WEIGHTING

Higher weight for Governance factors:

G=40%, E=30% and S=30%

  • Selection of KPIs
  • Dynamic & static scoring
  • Kuznets adjustment to E & S scores

FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS

Quantitative analysis
Relative rating compared to a peer group with specific characteristics:

  • GDP
  • Region
  • Size

Qualitative analysis

  • Review after each quantitative run of scores + ad-hoc / event-driven
  • Rating adjustments decided by the fixed income team jointly with the sustainable investment team

OUTCOME THESIS

Every country rated 1-5

  • Used to inform our investment decision and align with fund-level ESG commitments
  • Countries scoring below 2.5 are excluded from our fixed income fund range

Stewardship

Active engagement and voting, holding investee companies to account on ESG-related issues to drive positive change.

CORPORATE ENGAGEMENT

Purpose
• Clarifying our views & instilling best practice
• Holding senior management accountable
• c. 70 engagements per year

Collaborative engagements
• Leading collaborative engagements, e.g. CA100, PEMEX

VOTING

• Robust voting process, exercising our voting rights across equity and bond holdings
• 58% AGMs with at least 1 vote against management

POLICY AND REGULATION ENGAGEMENT

Active participation through memberships and affiliations in industry & regulatory initiatives focused on sustainable outcomes
• Voluntary/mandatory accounting standards

Outcome-focused reporting

Sustainability is an important part of our client reporting as well as our investment approach. Our outcome-focused reporting includes ESG Ratings, SDG Alignment, Climate Impact, ESG risks and controversy data.
View our sustainable funds

ESG in practice

ESG investing, i.e. using Environmental, Social and Governance factors to evaluate companies and countries on how far advanced they are on sustainability, is an investment approach by which our analysts and portfolio managers seek to focus on material ESG issues in their fundamental analysis. The integration of ESG considerations into our investments allows us to get a more complete picture of the material risks and opportunities surrounding an investment decision, based on the externalities generated on society and the environment.

The early implementation of ESG criteria in the monitoring and selection of sovereign bonds has enabled us to complete the ESG integration in all the main asset classes of our fund range. While external solutions are slowly being developed, we have chosen to build our own proprietary models in order to ensure ESG integration and to provide material information to our investors.

For several years now, we have been developing and refining our proprietary sovereign ESG model, designed to measure the long-term resilience of countries and to provide the most comprehensive country analysis possible from a dynamic perspective.

To meet emerging client demand and facilitate the classification of some of our Equity funds to the ambitious Article 9 (SFDR) classification as well as define sustainable investments, Carmignac has built a rules-based “Outcomes Framework” in line with the United Nations SDGs.

We have identified 9 SDGs as ‘investable’, which means that companies in which our funds can invest are able to support progress towards these goals through their products and services.

To identify companies that are aligned to the 9 SDGs, we have mapped over 1,700 business activities to the targets within the following investable SDGs:

  • SDG 1: No Poverty
  • SDG 2: Zero Hunger
  • SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4: Quality Education
  • SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
  • SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Within Carmignac’s SDG Outcomes framework, sustainable investments are defined as those companies that derive more than 50% of their revenues from goods and services positively aligned with at least one of the nine ‘investable’ SDGs by Carmignac. This high revenue threshold enables us to select companies whose intentionality to focus on sustainable activities is clearly demonstrated.
Depending on the commitment and fund classification under the SFDR, our funds either invest a minimum of 50% or 75% of the eligible assets of the fund in aligned companies.

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