What is sustainable investing … and why do we do it?
Our primary responsibility is to help our clients to achieve their long-term investment goals. We believe this is only possible if we secure a prosperous and sustainable future into which to invest. This is why our purpose as a firm is to invest and to advocate for a better tomorrow – to achieve better returns for our clients as well as a better future for our planet. For us, sustainable investing means delivering what we call sustainability with substance.
In other words, our approach to sustainability and addressing environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities must be evidence-based and purposeful.
Integrating ESG
As long-term investors, we need to consider all relevant risks. We integrate ESG into investment analysis across all our investment teams. This includes ensuring every investment team has the tools to analyse sustainability and ESG issues – resources that we believe are at least on a par with those available to the best sustainable strategies in the market.
Our investment teams also use their influence as active stewards of our clients’ capital to engage with companies and other entities on sustainability issues including direct and systemic risks.
Sustainable investment strategies
We offer a range of dedicated sustainable investment strategies that allocate to companies and other entities that have a positive influence on the world and aim to capture structural-growth trends linked to sustainability. Our sustainable strategies include those that incorporate impact investing approaches.
Our sustainable investing opportunities comprises both equity and fixed income strategies, some of which pursue sustainable thematic investing – for example, focusing on climate-solutions / transition investing, or on sustainability in emerging markets.
Our approach to sustainability
Across a framework we call Invest, Advocate and Inhabit, we seek to align behind the purpose and culture of our business: to do the right thing. By doing the right thing, we believe we can deliver the best outcomes for our clients as well as our people and the planet.
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Invest We integrate the assessment of ESG risks into our portfolios by deepening our understanding of externalities and improving our analysis and assessment of the risk they present. |
Advocate We seek to raise awareness of the need to fund the transition to a sustainable net-zero future in a fair and inclusive way, particularly in emerging markets. |
Inhabit We work to improve the sustainability of our operations and to support charities and community projects that are important to the team at Ninety One. |
Latest report
Sustainability and Stewardship Report
Our purpose is to invest for a better tomorrow. Our Sustainability & Stewardship Report details Ninety One’s work – on behalf of our clients and all of our stakeholders – towards a more sustainable future, with a deep dive into how we invest, advocacy and our corporate footprint.