UN PRI
Signatory since 2011 and A+ rating in 2019 for our responsible investing approach.
Sustainable Responsible Investment
Our long-only investment solutions embrace our firm-wide Sustainable Responsible Investment approach
Our fund offering
Pragmatism with conviction
Long term value creation that is delivered in a sustainable way requires adaptation. We are committed to adapting our socially responsible investing framework in recognition of the ongoing evolution in sustainability issues, such as climate change.
Independently sustainable
200 years of independence means we drive our decisions with a long-term perspective in mind, aligning to the investment horizons of our clients. As independent, socially responsible investors, we are free to make decisions at an investment level, employee level and corporate level that we believe have a long-term sustainable focus.
Acting on our responsibility
Our active, high conviction approach is driven by our engagement with companies around their financial and non-financial performance. We are passionate about the way we implement our ethical and social responsibilities. This strong sense of responsibility and sustainability expresses itself through all our investment decisions and the way we partner with clients.
Being adaptive to change
We believe that sustainable investing requires adaptation. As responsible investing evolves, our approach needs to be nimble and relevant. By identifying and measuring the key issues our world faces throughout the investment process, we can make a difference for our clients by minimising the downside risk and maximising the upside opportunities over the long term.
Our Sustainable and Responsible investment (SRI) Strategy Principles
How we integrate ESG within our investment process
To achieve Mirabaud’s economic responsibility’s goal of offering a comprehensive range of responsible and sustainable products and services, we aim at delivering high quality products and services, where our customers can be ensured that our investment professionals:
- Avoid investments and transactions in/with companies fundamentally inconsistent with sustainability principles and companies that might pose a financial risk due to their social or environmental challenges.
- Weave Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors into investment processes.
- Partner with companies and stakeholders to improve ESG-related business practices and better allocate capital for the long term.
What we look for
- A holistic view of financial and extra-financial performance, looking at all material information, both quantitative and qualitative.
- Research to guide the interactions our portfolio managers have with companies.
- We understand the extent to which ESG issues can impact the long-term value of a firm.
- ESG issues include (and are not limited to) governance and management, resource management, energy efficiency and human capital management.
What we do
- Source, analyse and engage on extra-financial information.
- Explicitly interweave relevant and material ESG considerations and financial considerations into investment processes, portfolio construction and research.
- We have achieved UN PRI A+ rating.
- We adopt the global standard on Proxy Voting through ISS.
Read more on our Sustainable and Responsible Investment Policy.
HOW WE INTEGRATE SUSTAINABILITY RISKS WITHIN OUR INVESTMENT PROCESS
When deemed relevant given the investment strategy, sustainability risks are integrated within our investment process mainly through the following:
- Specific ESG risk rating are taken into consideration within the investment process as part of the ESG integration approach.
- Our application of the exclusion approach.
The above are further detailed in the section here under.
CONSIDERATION OF PRINCIPAL ADVERSE SUSTAINABILITY IMPACTS
Identification and assessment
Mirabaud Asset Management considers principal adverse impacts of its investment decisions on sustainability factors. Through our Sustainable and Responsible Investment strategy, we identify, prioritize and monitor adverse impacts that entities have on sustainability factors such as climate, environment, resources use, labour and human rights as well as business ethics.
Actions taken
In order to identify and monitor adverse sustainability impact within our investment universe, we rely on our holistic Sustainable and Responsible Strategy based on four complementary pillars: Exclusion, Active Ownership, ESG Integration and Climate Policy.
Adherence to international Initiatives
As a signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) since 2010, we act accordingly to integrate and promote the internationally recognized principles for responsible finance.
We support the 10 principles of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) relating to human rights, labour law, the environment and the fight against corruption. We are committed to the promotion and development of sustainable finance, in particular through our partnership with the associations Swiss Sustainable Finance (SSF) and Sustainable Finance Geneva (SFG).
Mirabaud Asset Management is also signatory of CDP ( formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project), supports the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) and collaborates closely with initiatives such as the Transition Pathway Initiative and Climate Action 100+.
Mirabaud's SRI Strategy is centred around the following four complementary SRI approaches:
1. ESG integration:
At Mirabaud, ESG integration is core to our investment activities and reflections. We explicitly interweave relevant and material ESG considerations and financial considerations into investment processes, portfolio construction and research.
More precisely, we aim to proceed to an in-depth ESG analysis of companies we manage in funds and mandates, or recommend for investment to our clients. ESG materiality is at the core of our approach. Financially material ESG factors are factors that could have a significant impact on a company's operations and value drivers, such as revenue growth, margins and risk. We want to understand what material ESG risks companies are facing and how they concretely respond to these risks and opportunities.
Our analysis draws from proprietary internal research we supplement with research from third party data providers.
2. Active ownership:
At Mirabaud, we believe active ownership is a highly effective approach to contribute to good corporate governance and thereby enhances the long term economic and societal value of companies over time. As stewards of our clients' assets, we aim to use our active voice and enter into dialogue with companies on ESG matters to protect and increase the value of our assets. Such dialogue can also enhance our understanding of a company's sustainability, which can be fed back into investment processes.
As active, high conviction investors, our portfolio managers always take a dynamic approach to evaluating and interacting with companies to encourage best practices.
Our investment professionals perform three complementary types of engagement activities:
Company ESG dialogue
An informed, regular dialogue, through which the investment teams understand a company's corporate responsibility policy and identify their exposure to ESG risks and opportunities.
Addressing material ESG issues
Dialogue and engagement on the adoption of best practices on material ESG issues we believe may ultimately benefit the companies, our clients and wider sustainability challenges.
Collective engagement
We participate in collaborative engagement initiatives, which are aimed at mitigating investment risks, improving practices and seeking greater disclosure and transparency of information.
Read more on our Engagement Policy.
Read more in our Stewardship Report.
3. Exclusion:
Also known as negative screening, exclusion is traditionally considered as one of the primary Sustainable and Responsible investment (SRI) approaches. Some activities, products or services are deemed "controversial' when they pose major and global risks to the environment and the society. Indirectly, such activities also expose investors to severe financial and reputation risks.
Whilst we favour inclusion over exclusion, in line with our values and ESG beliefs, we apply restrictions to sectors and companies involved in controversial activities and facing critical ethical, social and environmental challenges. We also closely monitor ESG-related controversies and sensitive incidents that companies may face in the course of their business activities. Company failures to respond appropriately to controversies may trigger divestment.
In this context, Mirabaud has specific sector guidelines and business restrictions that seek to address those issues. Currently these are:
CONTROVERSIAL WEAPONS
Companies involved in dedicated research, development and manufacture of controversial weapons [ie. weapons production and trading causing harm and suffering and Subject to international conventions and embargoes]
TOBACCO
Companies directly involved in the production of tobacco industry [Constituting more than 5% of revenue]
THERMAL COAL
Companies deriving more than 20% of revenues from thermal coal mining
We apply additional exclusions in specific investment strategies and upon client request.
Read more on our exclusion policy
4. Climate change:
Climate change challenges induces medium to long-term risks, with a complex quantification of impacts on economic and financial activities. Taking advantage of our role as a financial institution, at Mirabaud, we aspire to identity and manage the impact of climate related risks on our clients' assets. Climate Change considerations are a core dimension of our SRI efforts and as such, we are signatories of the Climate Action 100+, an investor initiative to ensure the world's largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take necessary action on climate change.
Impact investing
In selective private equity strategies, we actively place capital with companies that are seeking sustainable and achievable outcomes.
Impact investing can be seen as an evolution of responsible investing. In addition to integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, and excluding certain assets from portfolios, Impact Investing aims at making investments that deliver positive financial returns and a benefit to society at the same time.
Impact investing must have clear, demonstrable and, most of all, measurable objectives.
APPLICATION OF MIRABAUD’S SRI APPROACH TO VARIOUS INVESTMENT STRATEGIES
Visit our legal disclaimer page to find out how our ESG strategy is applied to the various investment strategies through our Transparency Codes.
For our private assets funds:
Mirabaud Private Assets SCA SICAV-SIF – Mirabaud Grand Paris please find the sustainable Investment thesis here.
Mirabaud Private Capital SCA SICAV-SIF – Mirabaud Lifestyle Impact & Innovation please find the ESG protocol here.
Visit our Group’s CSR webpage or contact us to learn more about our Corporate Social Responsibility strategy and our Responsible Investing approach.