The Investment Manager seeks to identify growth opportunities by looking at global growth expectations, demand drivers, supply drivers (including those which impact changes in supply), macroeconomic trends (such as social demographic trends, monetary and fiscal policy, government models, and competitiveness) and factors impacting company valuations to establish a dynamic understanding of the economic backdrop to the investment universe.
The Investment Manager’s process incorporates quantitative and qualitative analysis of environmental, societal and governance policies, performance, practices and impacts. The Investment Manager uses quantitative analysis (exclusionary screening) to avoid companies involved in activities deemed unacceptable or controversial from an environmental, societal and governance perspective, and uses qualitative methods (third party research and internal analysis) to identify companies which can demonstrate continual improvement from an environmental, societal and governance perspective.
The Fund will seek to invest in a diversified portfolio of equity securities and equity related securities of, or relating to companies, which are domiciled, or exercise the predominant part of their economic activity, in Asian developed and emerging markets.