Fund Provider or Business Name
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Name of Fund or Initiative
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Email address
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Main contact for this award
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Position in organisation
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Website
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Phone number
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Innovation
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Describe your investment strategy and how this fund adds to the currently available options for investors :
- What features of the fund make it distinctive compared to other funds?
- What is the innovation being introduced by this fund and what are the benefits to clients from the innovation?
- What difference will this innovation make to raising ethical standards and/or creating positive impact?
- How will the introduction of this fund contribute to the development of best practice in New Zealand ethical and impact investing?
Avoiding harm
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Describe how your fund(s) avoid investments in companies that do harm to the environment and/or society for issues important to the New Zealand public (see Mindful Money’s methodology). Include information on:
- Policies to avoid investing in companies that do harm, including clear definitions of exclusion criteria, materiality and thresholds for divestment
- The proportion of investments across the fund that are under ethical/impact investment management and, for managed funds, how ethical investment policies are applied to external funds with pooled mandates
- For funds other than managed retail funds, include a listing of investments (ideally to 31 March 2024) and, where available, a description of their core business (this may be provided through a link to a website or report).
Positive Impact
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Describe the extent to which your investment fund portfolio includes companies that create positive social and/or environmental benefits. The following may be difficult to answer if the fund is new, so you can talk about your plans or the track record of a related fund where past information is not available. Include details on:
- Strategy: A short statement describing your strategy for investments in positive impact, including target returns and criteria for investment.
- Scope of Impact: % of portfolio in positive impact investments, in sectors (eg. renewable energy) or SDGs or other categories
- Scale of positive impact: A list of the top 3 investments in positive impact, with an explanation about the company and the scale of its impact in relation to the company (this can be a link to an impact or sustainability report).
- Extent of Contribution: For those 3 companies, add whether they are listed or unlisted, and the contribution from your investment (eg. assistance with capital raising, substantial management support, or finance only).
- Plans: Your plans for further positive impact investing (eg. target level as % portfolio).
Stewardship and Contribution to the company
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1. Outline your policy on engagement on ethical issues, including thresholds for when to undertake engagement, escalation criteria and when to divest from the company; for managed funds, whether NZ Stewardship Code signatory.
2. For investors in listed companies, outline public disclosure of voting record on ESG issues (include URL), and supporting information:
> policy and/or guidelines for voting on ESG issues
> proportion of votes for and against management on ESG issues
> proportion of listed equities in the portfolio voted by value
For investors in private markets, please describe the information on ESG that is shared with investors or the public.
3. Describe engagement activity beyond voting (include URL, if any), and supporting information, including:
> your approach, including the coverage of companies and depth of engagement (eg. those you engage with occasionally versus those with deep and sustained engagement)
> whether direct, third party or collaborative engagement, or other engagement activity such as policy engagement, published analysis or research on specific ESG themes
> contributions that you make to the success of companies in your portfolio, including governance, capital raising or management support.
4. Describe any outcomes of engagement (include URL if relevant), where engagement has contributed to a company agreeing to an identified change or where there was a significant contribution to the success of the company
Ethical Conduct and Better Member Outcomes
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1. Provide a short description of the provider including:
> Targets for membership growth
> Targets for returns and fees
2. Describe how you communicate with your members and the public about ethical investment
3. Describe your climate policies and practices as a fund provider, including:
> Your climate policy and approach to reducing emissions
> Targets or commitments to reduce your operational emissions and the financed emissions in your funds, including specific actions and progress
4. Describe policies and practices as a provider which improve social and environmental outcomes in Aotearoa, including:
> Initiatives to lift the financial literacy of members or the general public
> Measures to support diversity, equity and inclusion in your workplace and/or the sector
> Strategy and % of revenues for charity partnerships, donations and other forms of community support
Supporting documentation
Please include URL links to any supporting documentation for your entry, such as links to articles and other content referenced in the entry. We strongly encourage you to use URLs for your supporting documentation, however if you need to email any to us please send them to awards@mindfulmoney.nz.
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