Future returns will depend, among other things, on market developments, the manager’s skill, the fund’s risk profile, and associated costs. Before investing, customers are advised to review the fund’s key information and prospectus, which contain more detailed information about the fund’s characteristics and costs. Note: Investing in the fund means acquiring units in the fund, not the underlying investments.
DNB AM aims to promote best practices and actively prefers active ownership over exclusions, but companies may be excluded from the investment universe if they violate the criteria in the group instruction for responsible investments.
Companies will be excluded from the investment universe if they, or entities they control, produce weapons that, under normal use, violate fundamental humanitarian principles. This criterion includes investments in anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions, as defined in the Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines and the Convention on Cluster Munitions, as well as companies that develop and produce key components for weapons of mass destruction.
Companies can be excluded from the investment universe if there is an unacceptable risk that the company contributes to or is responsible for gross corruption and other serious violations of fundamental ethical standards.
Companies may be excluded from the investment universe if there is an unacceptable risk that the company contributes to or is responsible for serious or systematic violations of human rights, including breaches of one or more of the criteria outlined in the group instruction on the topic.
Companies will be excluded from the investment universe if they themselves or through entities they control derive 30 percent or more of their revenues from the extraction of oil sands (bitumen).
Companies will be excluded from the investment universe if they themselves or through entities they control produce pornography.
Companies will be excluded from the investment universe if they themselves or through entities they control produce cannabis for recreational purposes.
Companies may be excluded from the investment universe if there is an unacceptable risk that the company contributes to or is responsible for severe environmental damage or actions or omissions that, at an aggregated company level, lead to greenhouse gas emissions to an unacceptable degree.
Companies may be excluded if they, or entities they control, derive 30 percent or more of their revenues or business from thermal coal, extract over 20 million tons of thermal coal annually, or have more than 10,000 MW of coal-based power capacity.
Companies will be excluded from the investment universe if they, or entities they control, produce tobacco.