Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation

Those products which promote environmental and/or social characteristics and have binding investment criteria to attain such characteristics.

Macquarie Global Listed Real Assets Fund

Multi-asset investment strategy

• The Fund seeks to provide investors with capital appreciation, income and diversification utilising securities which are deemed to provide exposure to real assets. It aims to protect purchasing power by providing risk-adjusted and inflation adjusted total returns over full market cycles and invests in minimum 75% securities which promote the environmental and social characteristics.
• In portfolio construction, the Fund applies an exclusion screen to identify securities which may harm environmental or social objectives and utilises a scoring process used to measure alignment with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and, where applicable, a qualitative assessment of the SDG alignment.
• Environmental, social and governance integrated fundamental analysis is applied to provide a qualitative overlay which assesses both financial and non-financial criteria.

Macquarie ValueInvest LUX Global Fund

Equity investment strategy

• The Fund primarily invests in global equities listed on stock exchanges in developed countries.
• The Fund aims to deliver strong long term returns by investing in a concentrated portfolio of quality businesses with mispriced earnings power.The Fund invests with the intention of promoting the environmental and social characteristics outlined by the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact. The Ten Principles primarily cover human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption.
   

Macquarie Euro Government Bond Fund

Fixed income investment strategy

• The Fund invests in corporate and/or sovereign issuers which make a net positive contribution to sustainability by virtue of their environmental, social, and economic characteristics. Social criteria may include indicators such as corporate citizenship, human rights, employee health and safety and equal opportunities.
• The Fund also aims to provide shareholders with a robust ongoing performance while at the same time giving due consideration to the liquidity of the underlying assets.

Macquarie Emerging Markets Debt Select Opportunities Fund

Fixed income investment strategy

• The Fund invests in emerging market corporate and sovereign issuers which contribute to certain positive environmental and social characteristics.
• Environmental characteristics include positive indicators across climate change and carbon emissions, environmental health and ecosystem vitality, energy management, water and wastewater management, waste and hazardous materials management, and ecological impacts.
• Social characteristics include positive indicators across human rights, political rights and civil liberties, customer privacy and data security, product quality and safety, and employee health and safety.

Macquarie Emerging Markets Debt Sovereign ESG Fund

Fixed income investment strategy

• The Fund invests in emerging markets debt sovereign and quasi-sovereign bonds which display positive environmental and social (as well as governance) characteristics.
• Using a proprietary model to create ESG composite scores, the team adjusts social and governance scores for the level of development of the country and excludes sovereigns falling into the bottom quartile based upon this proprietary framework.

Macquarie Supranational Emerging Markets LC Bond Fund

Fixed income investment strategy

• The Fund invests in bonds and/or securitised debt instruments that are issued or guaranteed by supranational agencies which are aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• The 17 SDGs recognise the need for urgent action by all countries. That ending poverty and other deprivations must go together with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth — all while tackling climate change and working to preserve the world’s oceans and forests.

Macquarie Dynamic Global Bond Fund

Fixed income investment strategy

• The Fund aims to generate attractive returns through capital growth and income, by dynamically investing in a diversified portfolio of global fixed income instruments and combines top-down strategic positioning in duration and credit with high conviction bottom-up security selection.
• The result is a global and dynamic bond investment strategy that is able to adapt through economic cycles via flexible investments across the fixed income spectrum, seeking value where appropriate and offering protection to the extent possible during times of stress.
• Strategic levels of duration and credit are optimised to adapt to prevailing market conditions. Any tactical tilts to protect the Fund or capitalise on opportunities are then adjusted from these strategic levels of duration and credit exposure. In populating each sector, the investment team focuses on investing only in high conviction trades that aim to capitalise on the best opportunities on offer within the global fixed income universe.

Those products which have sustainable investment as their objective, and which integrate sustainability into the investment process in a binding manner.

Macquarie Sustainable Global Listed Infrastructure Fund

Equity investment strategy

• The Fund invests in listed infrastructure assets that contribute in a sustainable manner to the operation and growth of economies around the world.
• The Fund maximises this potential benefit through investing in a concise portfolio of high-quality infrastructure assets which provide exposure to capital expenditure that is expected to mitigate the impacts of, and adapt to, the effects of climate change.

Macquarie Emerging Markets Debt Green Opportunities Fund

Fixed income investment strategy

• The Fund invests in a diversified portfolio of hard currency-denominated or local currency-denominated emerging markets bonds that contribute substantially to an environmental and/or a social objective. The Fund also aims for as much alignment as practically possible with the EU taxonomy.
• Environmental contributions include climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, the sustainable use and protection of water and marine resources, the transition to a circular economy, pollution prevention and control, and the protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems.
• Social contributions include poverty reduction, hunger elimination, good health and well-being, education, gender equality, and social inequality reduction.