Climate Change
High Yield Credit

Seeking to deliver a positive climate impact alongside long-term outperformance.

Overview

Overview

Through high-conviction investment in companies with both strong fundamentals and the potential to transition to a low-carbon world, we target financial outperformance and a positive impact.

Fraser Lundie, CFA
Head of Fixed Income - Public Markets

Why Climate Change High Yield Credit?

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How we invest

High-conviction process
Climate change measurement
Active engagement to bring about change

Investment philosophy

Our twin objectives are to deliver:

Strong financial performance
Positive climate impact through decarbonisation

We believe these aims are interwoven and self-reinforcing.

Investment process

Climate Change High Yield Credit-investment process-infographic

We begin with positive and negative screens. The negative screen excludes fossil fuels, tobacco, controversial weapons and companies in contravention of the principles of the UN Global Compact, as well as companies with a Climate Change Impact (CCI) score of 5. CCI scores measure a company’s decarbonisation in terms of progress and impact (the latter referring to the contribution the company makes to decarbonising the economy through its operations and products).

The positive screen selects innovators; companies with science-based targets; genuine transition stories encouraged by engagement and green bonds.

We assess the company fundamentals, scoring their operating, financial and ESG strengths based on analyst and engagement insight. Concurrently, our Sustainable Fixed Income team analyses the materiality of the company’s climate change agenda and assigns our CCI score.

Once we have established the company’s fundamentals and climate change agenda, we will identify which instrument within the capital structure it is best for us to use. Our analysts will produce a score for value.

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