Global Sustainable Equity Fund

The Fund invests at least 70% of its assets in shares (also known as equities) of companies, of any size, in any industry and in any country, provided that such companies are not excluded by virtue of the applicable exclusions and meet the Fund’s sustainability standard. Whether a company provides sustainable products and/or services, and therefore whether it is a sustainable company for this Fund, will be determined by a robust evidence-based standard, which requires the majority of each company’s current revenues (at least 50%) to be aligned to a single sustainability theme.
The Fund may also invest in other assets including: (a) companies that have less than 50% revenues aligned to the sustainability themes or have revenues which the Investment Manager considers as enhancing quality of life and which are not considered to conflict with the sustainability themes: (b) companies that derive at least 50% of prospective revenues from products and services that contribute to positive environmental or social change; (c) Collective Investment Schemes (including those managed by Janus Henderson); and (d) cash.
The Investment Manager may use derivatives (complex financial instruments) to reduce risk or to manage the Fund more efficiently.
The Fund is actively managed with reference to the MSCI World Index. The index represents the most appropriate and useful comparator for assessing the Fund's performance because there is a high degree of overlap between the constituents of the index and the initial investible universe of the Fund, but the index does not define the Fund’s investment universe. The Investment Manager has discretion to choose investments for the Fund that are not in the index or with weightings that are different compared to the index. As an additional means of assessing the performance of the Fund, the IA Global sector average, which is based on a peer group of broadly similar funds, may also provide a useful comparator.