Candriam Sust. Equity Emerging Markets I Cap $

Principal assets traded:Shares of companies with their registered office and/or their principal activities in the emerging countries.Investment strategy:The fund seeks to achieve capital growth by investing in the principal assets traded and to ouperform the benchmark.The management team makes discretionary investment choices on the basis of an economic/financial analysis process as well as on a Candriam's proprietary analysis of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations, both indicative of risks and long-term opportunities.The fund's sustainable investment objective is to contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through specific targets as well as the integration of climate related indicators in issuer and securities analysis. The fund also aims to have long-term positive impact on environment and social objectives. More specifically the fund aims to achieve overall greenhouse gas emissions at least 30% lower than those of the benchmark.To achieve these objectives the fund implements a combination of positive selection of the best issuers based on ESG criteria, exclusion of issuers detrimental to these objectives or deemed to prone to controversies.Issuers are subject to a two-pronged analysis considering how issuers activities contribute to achieving sustainable objectives on the one hand, and how issuers' operations and policies align with the interests of their key stakeholders on the other hand. The result of this analysis forms the basis to define the investable universe and guide fund managers in their portfolio construction.This analysis is enriched by the results of dialogs led with issuers.This investment approach will cause the fund to avoid certain issuers due to their poor ESG quality or contribution to attaining sustainability objectives. Whilst the manager believes that such issuers are likely to lose out to more sustainable ones over the long term, market volatility and short term market trends could result in such issuers outp

PIR compliant

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PEA compliant

No

PEA-PME compliant

No