Climate Change
High Yield Credit

We overlay our dynamic investment process with a proprietary process that determines the climate change credentials of companies for portfolio construction and position-sizing purposes. Our high-conviction and flexible approach targets companies with strong fundamentals to generate returns across geographies, instrument types and credit curves. Through our disciplined, bottom-up research, we aim to identify issuers with attractive investment profiles that are contributing to the decarbonisation of the wider economy.

To determine a company’s progress towards decarbonisation and the materiality of its impact, we begin by analysing an aggregate of historical climate change data and scores. We then supplement the forward-looking perspectives of our credit analysts and engagers, including engagement insights. This enables us to really assess each company’s climate-related risks and its progress towards decarbonisation and potential impact. Designed by the Sustainable Fixed Income team, our bespoke framework – the Climate Change Impact (CCI) Score – conveys a company’s willingness to decarbonise, the potential to reduce its carbon footprint and the materiality of that decarbonisation path. These scores are key to issuer selection and sizing within the strategy.

We engage with companies to bring about a positive impact that supports the transition to a low-carbon future. Our dedicated engagers in the Fixed Income team, supported by EOS at Federated Hermes, a leading global stewardship team, seek positive action on climate change. We will not hold a company’s credit where engagement on climate change transition has failed.