our place within the European SFDR.

The European SFDR regulation (SFDR) is a European regulation that aims to improve transparency in the market for sustainable investment products. It focuses on sustainability claims made by financial market participants and imposes comprehensive sustainability disclosure requirements regarding environmental, social and governance metrics, both at an entity and a product level.

The main provisions of the SFDR, also called the SFDR Level 1, entered into force on 10th March 2021. On 6th April 2022, the European Commission supplemented the Level 1 measures by publishing the SFDR Level 2 Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS). These RTS came into effect on 1st January 2023.

Our core investment conviction is that sustainability is a key driver of risk and return as the economy transitions towards a CLIC ® economy. We offer a wide range of sustainable strategies focussing on areas such as climate, nature, decarbonisation, and food systems.

Classification criteria

The SFDR stipulates that asset managers must communicate on the level of integration of sustainability into their investment strategies. They must also classify their funds according to three categories of integration and the objectives sought. The definition of these categories is as follows:

	Article 6. The financial product has neither a sustainable objective nor environmental or social characteristics. It is however required to describe its integration of sustainability risks.
	Article 8. The financial product promotes, among other characteristics, environmental or social characteristics, or a combination of those characteristics. Asset managers may refer to Article 8+ as a category for an Article 8 financial product that commits to a minimum of sustainable investment.
	Article 9. The financial product has a sustainable investment as its objective.

SFDR Article:	6	8	9
Reports on the integration of sustainability risks	Yes	Yes	Yes
Promotes environmental or social characteristics		Yes
Has a minimum proportion of sustainable investments			100%
Has a sustainable investment objective			Yes

Please click on the tabs below for the cataloguing of our strategies.

Funds that are not article 8 or 9 products, but are nevertheless required to describe the manner in which sustainability risks are integrated into their investment decisions.


Equities	Europe High Conviction
Fixed Income	Asia Income 2024 High Yield 2023-24 The Sovereign Bond fund
Alternatives	Event Convexity Transition Materials

These financial product promote environmental or social (E/S) characteristics but do not have a specific sustainable investment objective.


Equities	Asia High Conviction Global FinTech Global HealthTech Global Fixed Income Opportunities Golden Age World Brands China High Conviction Continental Europe Family Leaders Continental Europe Small & Mid Caps Leaders Europe All-Cap Leaders Emerging High Conviction NextGen BioTech Swiss Equity Swiss Small & Mid Caps Missing Generation Global
Equities (With commitment to sustainable investment )¹	Circular Economy Future Electrification New Food Systems Planetary Transition TargetNetZero Global Equity TargetNetZero Europe Equity
Fixed Income	Euro BBB-BB Fundamental Global BBB-BB Fundamental Asia Investment Grade Bond Asia Value Bond Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond Fundamental Global Government Fundamental Global Inflation-Linked Fundamental Global Government Long Duration Short Term Money Market Swiss Franc Credit Bond (Foreign) Global Fixed Income Opportunities Ultra Low Duration Fallen Angels Recovery
Fixed income (With commitment to sustainable investment)¹	TargetNetZero IG Global Corporate TargetNetZero IG Euro Corporate TargetNetZero Credit Bond
Convertibles	Convertible Bond Convertible Bond Asia Defensive Delta Global Conservative
Multi-Asset	All Roads All Roads Growth All Roads Conservative

1 Some of our Article 8 funds promote Environmental/Social (E/S) characteristics, containing a minimum proportion of sustainable investments even if the latter are not the fund’s main objective.

These financial products commit to make only sustainable investments (ex-cash and cash equivalents) according to the SFDR.


Fixed Income	Global Climate Bond
Alternatives	Sustainable Private Credit

Blue text denotes Towards Sustainability labelled funds.

Source.

LOIM, as at 31 January 2023. The Towards Sustainability Quality Standards (for sustainable financial products) and labels were developed by the Central Labelling Agency. This award should not be construed as an endorsement of the Investment Manager, the Fund or any other private fund or pool advised by the investment manager or any of its affiliates.