Take a closer look at how the M&G Global Sustain Paris Aligned Fund connects active equity investing with addressing climate change. Our global strategy seeks to manage risk and deliver steady returns, with a focus on quality companies aligned to the Paris Agreement. A fund pursuing the best for both investors and the climate.
Why invest in the fund?
Smooth
A rigorous focus on risk management, aiming for a smooth risk and return profile.
Long term
We are long-term stewards of capital, looking to hold investee companies for many years.
Quality
Seeks quality companies that can provide resilience through market cycles.
Sustainable
Aligns with the Paris Agreement on climate change and broader sustainability principles.
"We aim to invest in companies that can deliver excellent long-term financial returns, while contributing towards tackling climate change by reducing their own emissions or providing solutions for others to do so."
John William Olsen
Fund Manager
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Investing towards the Paris Agreement? It’s more than just clean energy
Investors can help to address climate change by investing in a diversified portfolio of companies from across sectors and regions, not just clean energy or climate technology stocks.
Example investee companies
Microsoft
Global technology company Microsoft is making significant, intentional contributions towards the Paris Climate Agreement. It aims to become carbon negative before 2030, and by 2050, to have removed an equivalent amount to all of the carbon dioxide the company has emitted, either directly or indirectly via electricity consumption, since it was founded in 1975.
Linde
Linde is a leading industrial gases company, with an important role to play in fostering a cleaner, less polluted planet. Along with gradually reducing its own greenhouse gas emissions, the company is also facilitating its customers’ decarbonisation journeys.
The information provided should not be considered as a recommendation to purchase or sell any particular security.
Fund description
The fund aims to provide a combination of capital growth and income, net of the Ongoing Charge Figure, that is higher than the MSCI World Index over any five-year period and to invest in companies that contribute towards the Paris Agreement climate change goal of keeping a global temperature rise this century well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. At least 80% of the fund is invested in the shares of sustainable companies from across the world. The fund is concentrated and usually holds fewer than 40 companies. Sustainability considerations are fully integrated into the investment process. Companies that are assessed to be in breach of the United Nations Global Compact principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption are excluded from the investment universe. Industries such as tobacco and controversial weapons are also excluded. The fund manager makes long-term investments in companies with sustainable business models, where short-term issues have created buying opportunities for the fund.
The main risks that could affect the fund are:
- The value and income from the fund's assets will go down as well as up. This will cause the value of your investment to fall as well as rise. There is no guarantee that the fund will achieve its objective and you may get back less than you originally invested.
- The fund holds a small number of investments, and therefore a fall in the value of a single investment may have a greater impact than if it held a larger number of investments.
- The fund can be exposed to different currencies. Movements in currency exchange rates may adversely affect the value of your investment.
- Investing in emerging markets involves a greater risk of loss due to greater political, tax, economic, foreign exchange, liquidity and regulatory risks, among other factors. There may be difficulties in buying, selling, safekeeping or valuing investments in such countries.
The fund invests mainly in company shares and is therefore likely to experience larger price fluctuations than funds that invest in bonds and/or cash.
The fund may be very concentrated at times which could result in greater fluctuations in the fund’s short-term performance.
Further details of the risks that apply to the funds can be found in the fund’s Prospectus.
