Aegon abrdn Global Sustainable and Responsible Investment Equity Pn (ASI)
SRI Style:
Ethical Style
SDR Labelling:
-
Product:
Pension
Fund Region:
Global
Fund Asset Type:
Equity
Launch Date:
23/04/2014
Last Amended:
Dialshifter (
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Fund Size:
£3.17m
(as at: 31/03/2021)
ISIN:
GB00BKX59Q03, GB00BKX59R10
Sustainable, Responsible
&/or ESG Overview:
This Pension product is linked to the "abrdn Global Sustainable and Responsible Investment Equity" fund. The following information refers to the primary (OIEC) fund.
Awaiting update from fund manager - fund last updated June 2020
Please note: With effect from 28 June 2021 the investment objective and policy will be amended to reflect the movement to a Sustainable and Responsible investment approach. See website for more information.
The Fund’s objective is to generate growth over the long term by investing in global equities which meet its ethical screening criteria. The process for ASI Global Ethical Equity Fund is designed to ensure that only companies passing the twin hurdles of fundamental strength and acceptable ethical, social and environmental behaviour are eligible for investment.
Primary fund last amended:
Information directly from fund manager.
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Environmental - General
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Climate Change & Energy
This fund has a strategy that aims ensure its holdings will gradually reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in line with targets set at COP21 in Paris. The ultimate aim is to achieve ‘net zero emissions by 2050’ and a ‘maximum global temperature increase of +1.5 to +2 degrees above preindustrial levels’. Strategies and opinions vary. Read fund information.
Social / Employment
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Ethical Values Led Exclusions
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Companies are excluded if they are involved in any aspect of the production chain for tobacco products, including cigarettes, vaping, e-cigarettes, chewing tobacco and cigars.
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Find funds that avoid companies that derive significant income from pornography and related areas. Strategies vary. See fund details for further information.
Human Rights
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Find funds with policies that exclude companies or other assets where regimes are not democratic, or where people may be oppressed. May use eg. Freedom House research. Strategies vary. See fund literature for further information.
Governance & Management
Exclude companies that are subject to United Nations sanctions. See eg https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/en/content/un-sc-consolidated-list
Fund Governance
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Asset Size
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How The Fund Works
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Intended Clients & Product Options
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Fund Management Company Information
About The Business
Finds fund 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.
Find fund 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.
Find fund 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.)
Find fund managers that consider responsible ownership and ESG to be a key differentiator for their business.
The leadership team of this asset manager have performance targets linked to environmental goals.
Find fund management companies that aim to align all their investments (across all funds) to help meet the aims of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Find funds run by fund managers that apply Responsible ownership or 'Stewardship' policies to all or most of their investment assets. This means active involvement (e.g. voting, dialogue) with the companies they invest in across funds (not normally limited to ethical or SRI options.) Read fund literature for further information.
Find fund management companies that consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues when deciding whether or not to invest in a company for all / almost all of their funds and other assets. This is increasingly seen as part of sound risk management.
Find fund management companies that encourage the companies they invest in to have strong diversity, race, gender and other equality policies across all assets held, not simply screened or themed SRI/ESG funds. (ie Asset Management company wide).
Collaborations & Affiliations
Find fund management companies that have signed up to the UN backed 'Principles of Responsible Investment'.
Find fund management companies that are members of UKSIF - the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance association
Find fund management companies that have partnered with Fund EcoMarket - meaning that they are helping to improve access to information on sustainable and responsible investment by paying an annual fee to us which enables us to publish information for free. Partner funds are listed ahead of other funds and have their logos displayed.
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
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Find fund management companies that makes use of expert external research companies. This can help deliver specialist expertise and means resources are pooled with other investors.
Accreditations
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Engagement Approach
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Company Wide Exclusions
Find fund management companies (not funds) that avoid investment in 'controversial weapons' across all of their funds and other investment vehicles.
Find fund management companies that avoid investment in tobacco (manufacturing) companies across all their assets.
Climate & Net Zero Transition
Fund manager AGM / EGM voting strategy has processes in place that mean they will normally be expected to vote in a way that will encourage the transition to net zero greenhouse gas emissions.
This asset management company has set a date by which they plan to achieve net zero greenhouse gas / CO2e emissions.
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This asset management company plans to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (CO2e) emissions with the help of a scheme that will lock away an amount of carbon that is equivalent to the company’s own emissions – so that the end result is ‘net zero’. Calculations and scope vary.
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Transparency
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Find companies that publish information about their sustainable and responsible investment strategies on their company website.
Fund 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.
This asset management company has published a plan that explains how they are to become a sustainable business - without significant negative environmental or social impacts.
This asset management company has published a plan that explains how they will align to the climate change commitments made at the Paris Climate Talks, COP21.
This asset management company has published a plan that explains how they are going to achieve net zero greenhouse gas / CO2e emissions.
Find fund management companies that have supplied Dialshifter information. See Dialshifter tab within record for more information.
Sustainable, Responsible &/or ESG Policy:
Assessment criteria
For companies to pass the first hurdle, regional analysts identify stocks with quality management and superior earnings potential. To do this, they use their own research, direct company contacts, and valuation expectations from a variety of outside research sources.
Next, abrdn's experienced Responsible Investing team screens the companies against a number of ethical, environmental and social criteria. The team uses a list of well-researched and clearly defined criteria covering the three broad areas of ethical, environmental and social policies and practices when deciding whether to pass or fail each company.
The screening process uses negative exclusionary screening criteria and is also supported by abrdn's strong engagement approach to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. With negative screening, we examine companies to see if they are or have been involved in what we determine to be “areas of concern” over a defined historical period. Trends in adverse behaviour can suggest longer-term problems for an organisation. Companies failing our screening criteria are excluded from investment.
Negative screening
The fund applies negative criteria to avoid investing in companies involved in certain industries and activities that our customers are concerned with. We will avoid investment in companies involved in the activities listed below:
- Adult entertainment: companies which derive over 5% of their gross annual revenue from the production, transmission or sale of pornographic materials.
- Alcohol production: companies which derive over 10% of their gross annual revenue from the production and/or sale of alcoholic beverages.
- Animal testing: companies that test or commission tests of their products on animals.
- Poor business practices: companies with evidence of poor business practices that cause harm to society or their employees.
- Cluster munitions/anti-personnel landmines: captured by abrdn’s Controversial Weapons policy
- Poor environmental practices: companies with evidence of poor environmental practices that cause harm to society or their employees.
- Gambling: companies which derive more than 10% of their gross annual revenue from betting or gambling operations and/or from supplying gambling equipment.
- Poor human rights record: companies that
- operate in any country with a poor record of human rights and fail to have mechanisms in place to uphold human rights
- face continued accusations of human rights abuses, no matter where they operate
- have been involved in controversial projects that have been linked to human rights abuses
- are deemed to be supporting controversial regimes.
Resources, Affiliations & Corporate Strategies:
Investments Vector Sustainability Group:
- Amanda Young - Chief Sustainability Officer (8 years at Firm, 25 years in Industry)
- Eva Cairns - Head of Sustainability Insights & Climate Strategy (11 years at Firm, 16 years in Industry)
- Anna Moss - Senior Sustainability Analyst (12 years at Firm, 12 years in Industry)
- Ann Meoni - Senior Sustainability Analyst (8 years at Firm, 8 years in Industry)
- Elizabeth (Meyer) Chiweshenga - Senior Sustainability Analyst (9 years at Firm, 9 years in Industry)
- Nick Gaskell - Sustainability Analyst (Less than a year at firm, 7 years in Industry)
- Ziggy You - Sustainability Analyst (3 years at Firm, 3 years in Industry)
- Aidan Maloney - Graduate Business Analyst (Less than a year at Firm, less than a year in Industry)
- Dan Grandage - Head of Sustainable Investments (8 years at firm, 8 years in Industry)
- Eilidh Duncan - Senior Sustainability Manager (2 years at firm, 4 years in Industry)
- Katy Grant - Senior Sustainability Manager (10 years at Firm, 10 years in Industry)
- Rachel Rotheram - Sustainability Analyst (4 years at firm, 4 years in Industry)
- Yolanda Yang - ESG BI Analyst (Less than a year at firm, 1 year in Industry)
- Maka Indorbaeva - Graduate Business Analyst (Less than a year at Firm, less than a year in Industry)
- Andrew Mason - Head of Active Ownership (10 years at firm, 17 years in Industry)
- Douglas Wilson - Senior Sustainability Manager (22 years at firm, 25 years in Industry)
- Joanna Sulc - Senior Sustainability Manager (7 years at Firm, 20 years in Industry)
- Kathleen Dewandeleer - Senior Sustainability Manager (3 years at firm, 30 years in Industry)
- Nick Duncan - Senior Sustainability Manager (7 years at Firm, 25 years in Industry)
- Claire Leighton - Sustainability Manager (12 years at Firm, 12 years in Industry)
- Stuart Riddick - Sustainability Manager (3 years at Firm, 3 years in Industry)
- Katie Mint - Sustainability Support (2 years at Firm, 2 years in Industry)
- Danielle Welsh-Rose - Head of Sustainability Investment Specialists & APAC Sustainability (2 years at Firm, 20 years in Industry)
- Jamie Govan - Sustainability Director (14 years at Firm, 14 years in Industry)
- Neil Murdoch - Senior Sustainability Specialist (6 years at Firm, 16 years in Industry)
- Nicola Skrastin - Sustainability Specialist (5 years at Firm, 5 years in Industry)
- Qianlin Li - Sustainability Specialist (Less than a year at Firm, 10 years in Industry)
- Sylvain Augoyard - Sustainability Manager - APAC (Less than a year at Firm, 13 years in Industry)
- Daniel Bowie-MacDonald - Sustainability Investment Specialist (9 years at Firm, 10 years in Industry)
- Sheela Veerappan - Sustainability Investment Specialist - APAC (Less than a year at Firm, 18 years in Industry)
- Fionna Ross -Sustainability Investment Specialist & Head of Sustainability Institute - Americas (14 years at Firm, 14 years in Industry)
- Toby Grubb - Sustainability Support (1 year at Firm, 1 year in Industry)
Equity:
- Sarah Norris - Head of ESG - Equities (11 years at Firm, 12 years in Industry)
- David Smith - Senior Investment Director (10 years at Firm, 16 years in Industry)
- Jerry Goh - Investment Manager (7 years at Firm, 7 years in Industry)
- Daniel Ng - Investment Manager (5 years at Firm, 5 years in Industry)
- Andrew Risk - UK Equity ESG Analyst (Less than a year at Firm, 9 years in Industry)
- Fraser Harle - Investment Analyst (6 years at Firm, 7 years in Industry)
- Tzoulianna Leventi - ESG Analyst and Investment Analyst (4 years at Firm, 4 years in Industry)
- Jonny Salvage - ESG Analyst - European Equities (Less than a year at Firm, 4 years in Industry)
Multi-Asset:
- Craig MacKenzie - Head of SAA Research (11 years at Firm, 25 years in Industry)
- Catie Wearmouth - ESG Investment Director – Multi Asset Solutions (1 year at Firm, 23 years in Industry)
- Fiona Ritchie - ESG Investment Manager (10 years at Firm, 35 years in Industry)
Fixed Income:
- Marianne Zangerl - Head of ESG Fixed Income (7 years at Firm, 13 years in Industry)
- Nicholas Kordowski - Head of Non-Financials Research (12 years at Firm, 18 years in Industry)
- Andrew Fraser - Head of Financials Research (13 years at Firm, 31 years in Industry)
- George Westervelt - Head of US HY Research (13 years at Firm, 23 years in Industry)
- Julien Martin - Head of Euro HY Research (9 years at Firm, 17 years in Industry)
Paul Lukaszewski - Head of Asian Corporate Debt & Emerging Market Credit Research (11 years at Firm, 21 years in Industry) - Matthew Kence - Investment Director (12 years at Firm, 19 years in Industry)
- Josef Helmes - Investment Director (10 years at Firm, 21 years in Industry)
- Mark Munro - Investment Director (9 years at Firm, 16 years in Industry)
- Samuel Bevan - Investment Manager (10 years at Firm, 10 years in Industry)
- Henry Loh - Investment Manager (8 years at Firm, 8 years in Industry)
- Emilia Matei - Investment Analyst (7 years at Firm, 7 years in Industry)
- Kate McGrath - ESG Analyst - Fixed Income (3 years at Firm, 3 years in Industry)
- Scott McQuiston - ESG Analyst - Fixed Income (2 years at Firm, 2 years in Industry)
- Khashayar Lotfizadeh - Global Head of Quantitative Analytics (8 years at Firm, 8 years in Industry)
- Samuel Grantham - Investment Director (9 years at Firm, 9 years in Industry)
- Thomas Leys - Investment Director (9 years at Firm, 10 years in Industry)
- Jonathan Mondillo - Head of Municipals (4 years at Firm, 17 years in Industry)
- Nicole Lim - Investment Analyst (1 year at Firm, 5 years in Industry)
- Curt Starer - Investment Director (15 years at Firm, 22 years in Industry)
- Janaka Nanayakkara - Investment Director (7 years at Firm, 15 years in Industry)
- Albane Poulin - Head of European Private Placements (7 years at Firm, 10 years in Industry)
- Eliza Uphadya - Lending Manager (6 years at Firm 6 years in Industry)
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Fund Name | SRI Style | SDR Labelling | Product | Region | Asset Type | Launch Date | Last Amended |
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Aegon abrdn Global Sustainable and Responsible Investment Equity Pn (ASI) |
Ethical Style | - | Pension | Global | Equity | 23/04/2014 | ||
Fund Size: £3.17m (as at: 31/03/2021) ISIN: GB00BKX59Q03, GB00BKX59R10 |
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Sustainable, Responsible &/or ESG OverviewThis Pension product is linked to the "abrdn Global Sustainable and Responsible Investment Equity" fund. The following information refers to the primary (OIEC) fund.
Awaiting update from fund manager - fund last updated June 2020
Please note: With effect from 28 June 2021 the investment objective and policy will be amended to reflect the movement to a Sustainable and Responsible investment approach. See website for more information.
The Fund’s objective is to generate growth over the long term by investing in global equities which meet its ethical screening criteria. The process for ASI Global Ethical Equity Fund is designed to ensure that only companies passing the twin hurdles of fundamental strength and acceptable ethical, social and environmental behaviour are eligible for investment.
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Ethical policies
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Tobacco and related product manufacturers excluded
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Pornography avoidance policy
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ESG integration strategy
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Invests in small, mid and large cap companies / assets
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Available via an ISA (OEIC only)
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Responsible ownership / ESG a key differentiator (AFM company wide)
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Senior management KPIs include environmental goals (AFM company wide)
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SDG aligned aims / objectives (AFM company wide)
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Integrates ESG factors into all / most (AFM) fund research
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Diversity, equality & inclusion engagement policy (AFM company wide)
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PRI signatory
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UKSIF member
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Fund EcoMarket partner
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TNFD forum member (AFM company wide)
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
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Employ specialist ESG / SRI / sustainability researchers
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Use specialist ESG / SRI / sustainability research companies
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UK Stewardship Code signatory (AFM company wide)
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Regularly lead collaborative ESG initiatives (AFM company wide)
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Controversial weapons avoidance policy (AFM company wide)
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Tobacco avoidance policy (AFM company wide)
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Voting policy includes net zero targets (AFM company wide)
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Net Zero - have set a Net Zero target date (AFM company wide)
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Encourage carbon / greenhouse gas reduction (AFM company wide)
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Carbon offsetting - offset carbon as part of our net zero plan (AFM company wide)
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In-house carbon / GHG reduction policy (AFM company wide)
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Publish responsible ownership / stewardship report (AFM company wide)
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Full SRI / responsible ownership policy information on company website
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Publish full voting record (AFM company wide)
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Sustainability transition plan publicly available (AFM company wide)
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Paris Alignment plan publicly available (AFM company wide)
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Net Zero transition plan publicly available (AFM company wide)
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Dialshifter statement
Find fund management companies that have supplied Dialshifter information. See Dialshifter tab within record for more information. Sustainable, Responsible &/or ESG Policy:Assessment criteria For companies to pass the first hurdle, regional analysts identify stocks with quality management and superior earnings potential. To do this, they use their own research, direct company contacts, and valuation expectations from a variety of outside research sources.
Next, abrdn's experienced Responsible Investing team screens the companies against a number of ethical, environmental and social criteria. The team uses a list of well-researched and clearly defined criteria covering the three broad areas of ethical, environmental and social policies and practices when deciding whether to pass or fail each company.
The screening process uses negative exclusionary screening criteria and is also supported by abrdn's strong engagement approach to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. With negative screening, we examine companies to see if they are or have been involved in what we determine to be “areas of concern” over a defined historical period. Trends in adverse behaviour can suggest longer-term problems for an organisation. Companies failing our screening criteria are excluded from investment.
Negative screening The fund applies negative criteria to avoid investing in companies involved in certain industries and activities that our customers are concerned with. We will avoid investment in companies involved in the activities listed below:
Resources, Affiliations & Corporate Strategies:Investments Vector Sustainability Group:
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Multi-Asset:
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