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Conventional investing is purely about achieving a financial return. But impact investing goes beyond this. It's about delivering attractive financial returns and doing good for society and the environment. We don't believe that you have to choose between sound investment returns and positive society outcome. With impact investing we believe that you can have both. The concept of impact investing is not new, but until recently it's been the preserve of institutional investors and high net worth individuals accessed to predominantly through private equity and private debt instruments. This is changing. With organisations like the Global Impact Investing Network making concerted efforts to attract more capital from wider sources. Directing more capital towards impact is essential if we're serious about addressing the world world's most pressing challenges. We're talking about climate change, pollution quality, poverty To the extent to which we're prepared to face these issues head on, we'll directly influence the shape off the world we need for the future generations. The good news is that impact investing can be an integral part of the solution. We believe companies whose products and services need some of these acute social or environmental needs are said to exhibit very strong growth characteristics. The opportunities are massive and in our opinion, impact investing gives us a direct line into them. With this fund, we seek to open up impact investing to a much broader audience on traditional private financing allowed by investing in the list of equities of companies that aim to have a positive impact on our society around the globe. The fund's aim is twofold. Beat the MSCI all countries world index over any five year rolling period and to invest in companies that aim to have a positive societal impact through addressing the world's major social and environmental challenges. We have a rigorous selection process to identify quality impactful companies we can invest in if the timing and the price is right from those companies would build a concentrated portfolio of around 30 stocks that we invested for the long term. The fund is diversified around six main impact areas that we think business is a place to address. Three, relate to the environment and focus on climate solutions, clean air, water and land on the circular economy, which is about reducing waste, reusing and recycling, and three that have a social purpose, concentrating on better health conditions and social equality Across these areas, we invest in three types of impactful cos pioneers, enablers and leaders providing additional diversification measuring impact. His complex, especially when it comes to listed equities, were dealing with diverse businesses and investments that traded on the secondary market. So to approach this with rigour, we've designed what we call our three I methodology to evaluate stock is suitable for investment. The three I's refer to investment intention and impact for stocks to even be considered for investment. Damos rank above average in a ll three categories. This is to avoid compromising on the investment case to obtain impact and vice versa. The company's intentionality is also paramount, meaning we need to ensure it has a clear purpose to produce impact and that this is not just an accidental outcome. We have adopted a framework used by the Gates Foundation on the World Health Organisation to then map the impact journey of each investment. Finally way map each investment against the prime sustainable development gold. It contributes towards the S T. G s r. 17 aspirational goals set up by the U. N in 2015, which are increasingly being adopted as a framework for assessing real World. In fact, compared with traditional global equity products, this fund has a larger proportion of its assets invested in smaller companies on emerging areas. This reflects opportunities in earlier stage companies and the great need for impact capital in developing economies. We also expect companies held in the fund to exhibit stronger growth profiles on the global equity market. Importantly, though, this's a liquid global equity fund separating it from many established impact products. But it does so without compromising on the impact it seeks to deliver. We believe the fund will be of interest to investors looking to build long term compound returns and contribute towards healthier world with their investments.