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 :
1. What features of the fund make it distinctive compared to other funds?
2. What is the innovation being introduced by this fund and what are the benefits to clients from the innovation?
3. What difference will this innovation make to raising ethical standards and/or creating positive impact?
4. 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, including
1. Clear definitions of exclusion criteria, materiality and thresholds for divestment.
2. The proportion of the fund that is under ethical/impact investment management and, for managed funds, how ethical investment policies are applied to external funds with pooled mandates.
3. For funds other than managed retail funds, include a listing of investments (ideally to 31 December 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 the fund includes companies that create positive social and/or environmental benefits (for new funds, describe plans):
- 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, whether they are listed, and the contribution from your investment (this can be a link to an impact or sustainability report).
- 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, including thresholds for when to undertake engagement, escalation criteria and when to divest from the company, and whether a signatory to the NZ Stewardship Code
2. For listed investments, 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:
○ coverage of companies and depth (eg. those you engage with occasionally versus those with deep and sustained engagement)
○ the type of engagement activity, including direct engagement versus engagement through an external provider
○ 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 and promote ethical and impact investing with your members and the public.
3. Describe your climate policies and practices as a fund provider, including targets or commitments to reduce your operational emissions and the financed emissions in your funds.
4. Describe policies and practices 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.
The above declaration is true.
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