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The information contained in this document is for background purposes only, does not purport to be full or complete, does not constitute investment advice and may not be relied on. In particular, strategies have been and will continue to be adjusted, modified, developed, added and/or removed, and there can be no assurance that the Fund will in the future exhibit the same target risk allocations or other characteristics noted herein. On the contrary, these characteristics will change in the future, perhaps materially. No prospective investor should invest based on the information contained herein.

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3D Impact Strategy

A global equity investment strategy, 3D Impact focuses on investing exclusively in companies that develop sustainable solutions within their industries and seek to build long-term shareholder value.

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We evaluate three dimensions of impact:

Our portfolios are designed to provide equity market exposure with impact through a proprietary grouping system that aligns investment research and trading at the intersection between the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and traditional economic sectors (GICS).

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Products / Revenue
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Behaviors / Supply Chain
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Advocacy / Engagement

Investment Philosophy

We believe significant challenges equal significant opportunities.  Companies working to improve environmental health and social well-being can solve the world’s biggest challenges, with investors and regulators accelerating demand for their goods and services solidifies our belief that impact is not an “or”, it’s an “and”.

We believe in a virtuous cycle:

Companies working to solve the world’s biggest challenges, environmental health and social well-being, represent the biggest opportunities.

Setting Ourselves Apart with KPIs

We focus on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure alignment of realized outcomes.  KPIs quantify extra-financial performance, creating metrics for social and environmental behaviors.  The use of KPIs allows us to identify thesis risk by monitoring the alignment of investment and impact goals and better informs our engagement with management by directing supportive and insightful conversation.

Why KPIs?

of the greatest barriers within impact investing is how to express accountability that a company is making an impact. KPIs can quantify social and environmental impacts by creating unique datasets to launch analysis.  We evaluate these datasets through the following:

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Portfolio level impact
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Environmental and social “returns”
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Peer comparisons
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Best-in-class practices
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Macro screening/idea generation

Risk Management Framework

Evaluating Risk Through Impact:

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Relative performance within industry
Are companies deviating from expected behavior?
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Performance relative to price target
Is a company tracking in the wrong direction?
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Alignment with thesis
Is there measurable progress of KPI metrics?

Advocacy

Engagement with companies is an important part of the investment process. We engage  with companies seeking to improve behavior and disclosure, prioritizing KPIs as a measurement of success.

Our open engagement letters serve two purposes:

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Plant seeds to encourage more investors to join the conversation
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Become a positive influencer with credibility to focus the conversation on the key issues