Sustainable, Responsible &/or ESG Policy:

Objective & Investment Policy

The investment objective of the Fund is to provide investment results that closely correspond, before fees and expenses, generally to the price and yield performance of the Solactive Global Hydrogen v2 Index (the “Index”).

The Fund is passively managed.

The Fund will aim to achieve its investment objective by attempting to track the performance of the Index by investing primarily in a portfolio of equity securities and derivatives that as far as possible and practicable consists of the component securities of the Index in similar proportions to their weightings in the Index and in American depositary receipts  (“ADRs”) and global depositary receipts (“GDRs”) based on the securities in the Index.

The Fund is an ESG Fund and promotes environmental characterist ics by focusing on investments in Hydrogen Companies through replicating the Index.

The Index is designed to provide exposure to companies that are positioned to benefit from further advances in the field of hydrogen technology. Hydrogen technology include s products and services focused on the development and implementation of hydrogen gas as a renewable fuel source. “Hydrogen Companies” are those companies that derive at least 50% of their revenues, operating income, or assets from the following business a ctivities. Hydrogen Production, Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Technology and Hydrogen Integration.

When not possible or practicable to continue to hold all of the component securities of the Index, the Fund may invest in depositary receipts relating either to components securities of the Index or to equity securities of the type referred to above; and financial derivative instruments ( “FDIs”), namely, total return “unfunded” OTC swaps and exchange - traded equity futures for investment  purposes.

(Source: KIID, as at February 2025)

 

 

SDR Labelling:

Not eligible to use label