Sustainable, Responsible &/or ESG Policy:

Objectives and Investment Policy

The Share Class is a share class of a Fund which aims to achieve a return on your investment, through a combination of capital growth and income on the Funds’ investments, which reflects the return of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Enlarged Index ex Alcohol, Tobacco, Gambling, Armaments & Firearms and Adult Entertainment, the Fund’s benchmark index (Index).

The Share Class, via the Fund, is passively managed and aims to invest so far as possible and practicable in equity securities (e.g. shares) that make up the Index.

The Index measures the performance of equity securities (e.g. shares) that are selected to provide a representation of the global sustainability equity market. The companies that issue the equity securities are selected for the Index based on long-term economic, environmental and social criteria and make up the top 20% of the largest 2,500 global sustainability companies of the Dow Jones Global Total Stock Market Index.

The Index is market capitalisation weighted. Market capitalisation is the share price of the company multiplied by the number of shares issued.

The Fund intends to replicate the Index by holding the equity securities, which make up the Index, in similar proportions to it.

The investment manager may use financial derivative instruments (FDIs) (i.e. investments the prices of which are based on one or more underlying assets) to help achieve the Fund’s investment objective. FDIs may be used for direct investment purposes.

The Fund adopts a best-in-class approach to sustainable investing, this means that it is expected that the Fund will invest in the best issuers from an environmental, social and governance (ESG) perspective (based on the ESG criteria of the Index) within each relevant sector of activities covered by the Index.

(Source: KIID, as at February 2025)

SDR Labelling:

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