Unlock the Diversity Value with VDNI ETF.
Diversification and Diversity have more in common than their Latin root; they both carry value. Human capital is a capital, a key driving force of any business, that too enjoys the benefits of diversification. Diversity at the senior leadership level is a foreteller of a healthy company culture, which in turn strengthens the levers and drivers of sustainable corporate performance. The V-Shares US Leadership Diversity ETF (VDNI) invests in domestic companies (US) exhibiting broad ethnic and gender representation for Directors and Named Executive Officers (NEO) as determined by the index provider. The fund seeks to track the investment results of the ISS ESG U.S. Diversity Index Total Return (Ticker ISSDIVUT).
V-Shares MSCI World ESG Materiality and Carbon Transition ETF
The V-Shares MSCI World ESG Materiality and Carbon Transition ETF (VMAT) invests in companies in developed markets countries, including the United States and Canada, that are assessed to be sector leaders based on a set of environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) key issues that are aligned with the “Materiality Map” of the Sustainability Accounting Standard Board (“SASB”) and in the global transition to low carbon emissions. The fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the MSCI World ESG Materiality and Carbon Transition Select Index (Ticker MXESGMTN).
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V Square – This Is Sustainable Investing Reimagined
A FOCUSED SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH.
Out of a large and evolving set of ESG risks and opportunities, our Squared Scores™ applies a focused approach narrowing down the scope to financially relevant ESG signals. We aim to identify the data points that are most likely to be material to a company’s valuation:
Materiality
While a myriad of ESG data is available, we aim to identify the data points that are most likely to be material to a company’s valuation.
Governance
Understanding how a company is run is clearly important to assessing it as a potential investment opportunity. Investors have an important role to play in engaging with companies to help them adopt best practices, to capture opportunities and mitigate risks. We take seriously our responsibility as a steward of the assets. We will engage with companies, using the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) Global Stewardship Principles as a guiding framework.
Human Capital & Technology
Human capital and technology are a key focus of V-Square, as we look to assess the strength of companies holistically. A company’s ability to create value, hold financial sustainability, remain relevant, and grow cannot be achieved without maintaining sustainable human capital practices whilst capitalising on new technologies. We seek to identify data related to material human capital and technology factors and integrate these metrics into its investment decision-making process.
Climate Change
Climate change creates risks and opportunities for investors. At the portfolio level, climate risk will have a disproportionate impact across asset classes. Our investment approach integrates a long-term view on climate risk through our global macro model, combined with a bottom up approach supporting the transition to a low carbon economy.
Sustainable Investing Reimagined.
V-Square’s unique approach to sustainability takes a long-term view and seeks to deliver a new vector of change in the way we generate investment returns for investors in alternative asset classes, core equity and fixed income.
Our approach focuses on four pillars:
Intentionality
Research
Innovation
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ESG investing is defined as utilizing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria as a set of standards for a company’s operations that socially conscious investors use to screen potential investments.
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