Robeco Global SDG Engagement Equities YEH CHF
Actively targeting impact and financial returns
Share classes
Share classes
Every share class of a product invests in the same portfolio of securities and has the same investment objectives and policies. However, their parameters might deviate. For instance and amongst others, their distribution type, currency exposure or fees and expenses might differ. The most common share classes at Robeco are:
a) D/DH shares, which are regular shares and available for all Investors;
b) I/IH shares, for institutional investors as defined from time to time by the Luxembourg supervisory authority.
For more information on share classes please go to the prospectus.
YEH-CHF
D-EUR
D-USD
DH-CHF
DH-EUR
DH-USD
F-EUR
F-USD
I-EUR
I-USD
XH-USD
YE-CHF
YH-AUD
YH-CHF
YH-EUR
YH-GBP
YH-USD
Class and codes
Asset class:
Equities
ISIN:
LU2408969314
Bloomberg:
ROSEEYC LX
Index
MSCI All Country World Index (hedged into CHF)
Sustainability-related information
Sustainability-related information
Under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, products can be labelled as either Article 6, 8 or 9 fund.
Article 6 - The fund is not in scope of enhanced sustainability disclosures compared to Article 8 and 9.
Article 8 - The fund does not have a sustainable investment objective but promotes environmental or social characteristics and is subject to enhanced sustainability disclosures.
Article 9 - The fund has a sustainable investment objective and is subject to enhanced sustainability disclosures.
Regardless of Article 8 or 9, the companies in which investments are made must follow good governance practices, and sustainable investments must not do any significant harm.
Article 8
- Overview
- Performance & costs
- Portfolio
- Sustainability
- Commentary
- Documents
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Key points
- Helping business achieve positive impact through engagement.
- Drive clear and measurable improvements in a company’s contribution to the SDG’s while achieving attractive investment returns.
- Concentrated portfolio includes assessment on SDGs engagement potential.
About this fund
Robeco Global SDG Engagement Equities is an actively managed fund that invests in a concentrated selection of global stocks. Stock selection is based on fundamental analysis to invest in companies based on their contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). The fund will actively engage with the invested companies and initiate a dialogue to motivate these companies to improve their fulfilment of the UN SDGs over three to five years via active engagement. The portfolio is built on the basis of an eligible investment universe and an internally developed SDG framework for mapping and measuring SDG contributions (information can be obtained via the website www.robeco.com/si).The fund also aims to achieve a better return than the index.
Key facts
Total size of fund
CHF 1,246,459,765
Size of share class
CHF 8,619,081
Inception date share class
23-11-2021
1-year performance
20.86%
Dividend paying
Yes
Fund manager
Michiel Plakman CFA
Daniela da Costa
Peter van der Werf
Thomas Globe
Michiel Plakman is Lead Portfolio Manager and member of the Global Equity team. He is also Co-Head of Robeco’s Global Equity team. He is responsible for fundamental global equities with a focus on SDG investing and on companies in the information technology, real estate & communication services sectors, as well as portfolio construction. He has been in this role since 2009. Previously, he was responsible for managing the Robeco IT Equities fund within the TMT team. Prior to joining Robeco in 1999, he worked as a Portfolio Manager Japanese Equities at Achmea Global Investors (PVF Pensioenen). From 1995 to 1996 he was Portfolio Manager European Equities at KPN Pension Fund. He holds a Master's in Econometrics from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and he is a CFA® Charterholder. Daniela da Costa is co-portfolio manager of Robeco's Global SDG Engagement fund and has a research focus on Brazil and the African consumer sector. Prior to joining Robeco in 2010, she was Portfolio Manager Latin American Equities at Nomura in London. Before that, Daniela worked at HSBC and with the Petrobras pension fund in Brazil. She started her career in the industry in 1997. Daniela holds a Master's in Economics from the Brazilian Capital Markets Institute in Rio de Janeiro (IBMEC-RJ) and a MBA certificate in pension fund asset management from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE-UFRJ). She is board member of AMEC, the Brazilian stewardship agency and a member of Robeco’s SDG committee and Biodiversity Task Force. Peter van der Werf is Head of Engagement at Robeco. He leads the corporate and sovereign engagement program in the Active Ownership team and is involved in further integration of active ownership in Robeco’s investment products. With his engagement work he has challenged sustainability leadership at more than 200 global companies to align their environmental and social strategy with Robeco’s sustainable investing philosophy. As Portfolio Manager SDG Engagement Equities, Peter contributes to impact investing in listed equity. He is also an Advisory Board member of the Finance for Biodiversity foundation. Peter started his career in 2007 and holds a Master’s in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University. Thomas Globe is Portfolio Manager and member of the Global Equity team. He is responsible for fundamental global equities with a focus on SDG investing and portfolio construction. He is also Deputy Lead Portfolio Manager Global SDG Engagement Equities. Prior to joining Robeco in 2024, he worked as portfolio manager for Premier Miton Investors. Previous to that, he worked at Premier Asset Management as portfolio manager and analyst. He joined the industry in 2011. Thomas holds a first class Bachelor of Arts (Joint Honours) in Business and Law from Staffordshire University. He is a CFA® Charterholder.
Performance
Per period
Per annum
- Per period
- Per annum
1 month
0.21%
1.61%
3 months
2.73%
3.78%
YTD
10.30%
15.61%
1 year
20.86%
24.93%
2 years
17.74%
19.77%
Since inception 11/2021
0.67%
3.66%
2023
21.06%
16.65%
2022
-23.79%
-18.16%
Dividend paying history
24-04-2024
CHF 0.98
27-04-2023
CHF 0.98
28-04-2022
CHF 0.09
Costs
Ongoing charges
Indication of annual charges that are deducted for this fund. This indication is based on the costs over the last calendar year and may vary from year to year. Transaction costs incurred by the fund, any performance fees and other one-off costs are not included in the ongoing charges.
0.60%
Included management fee
A fee paid by the fund to the asset management company for the professional management of the fund.
0.47%
Included service fee
This fee is intended to cover official fees, such as the cost of annual reports, annual shareholders' meetings and price publications.
0.12%
Transaction costs
The transaction costs shown are the average annual transaction costs over the last three years calculated in accordance with European regulations.
0.09%
Fiscal product treatment
The fund is established in Luxembourg and is subject to the Luxembourg tax laws and regulations. The fund is not liable to pay any corporation, income, dividend or capital gains tax in Luxembourg. The fund is subject to an annual subscription tax ('tax d'abonnement') in Luxembourg, which amounts to 0.01% of the net asset value of the fund. This tax is included in the net asset value of the fund. The fund can in principle use the Luxembourg treaty network to partially recover any withholding tax on its income.
Fiscal treatment of investor
Investors who are not subject to (exempt from) Dutch corporate-income tax (e.g. pension funds) are not taxed on the achieved result. Investors who are subject to Dutch corporate-income tax can be taxed for the result achieved on their investment in the fund. Dutch bodies that are subject to corporate-income tax are obligated to declare interest and dividend income, as well as capital gains in their tax return. Investors residing outside the Netherlands are subject to their respective national tax regime applying to foreign investment funds. We advise individual investors to consult their financial or tax adviser about the tax consequences of an investment in this fund in their specific circumstances before deciding to invest in the fund.
Fund allocation
Asset
Currency
Sector
Top 10
- Asset
- Currency
- Sector
- Top 10
Policies
The fund is allowed to pursue an active currency policy to generate extra returns and can engage in currency hedging transactions.
This share class of the fund will distribute dividend.
Robeco Global SDG Engagement Equities is an actively managed fund that invests in a concentrated selection of global stocks. Stock selection is based on fundamental analysis to invest in companies based on their contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). The fund will actively engage with the invested companies and initiate a dialogue to motivate these companies to improve their fulfilment of the UN SDGs over three to five years via active engagement. The portfolio is built on the basis of an eligible investment universe and an internally developed SDG framework for mapping and measuring SDG contributions (information can be obtained via the website www.robeco.com/si).The fund also aims to achieve a better return than the index. The fund promotes E&S (i.e. Environmental and Social) characteristics within the meaning of Article 8 of the European Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, integrates sustainability risks in the investment process and applies Robeco’s Good Governance policy. The fund will actively engage with the invested companies and initiate a dialogue to motivate these companies to improve their fulfilment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) over three to five years via active engagement. The fund applies sustainability indicators, including but not limited to, normative, activity-based and region-based exclusions, and applies proxy voting. The Sub-fund is actively managed. The investment policy is not constrained by a benchmark but the Sub-fund uses a benchmark for comparison purposes. The Sub-fund can deviate substantially from the issuer, country and sector weightings of the benchmark. There are no restrictions on the deviation from the benchmark. The benchmark is a broad market weighted index that is not consistent with the environmental, social and governance characteristics promoted by the Sub-fund.
Risk management is fully integrated into the investment process to ensure that positions always meet predefined guidelines.
Sustainability-related disclosures
Sustainability profile
ESG Important Information
The sustainability information below can help investors integrate sustainability considerations in their process. This information is for informational purposes only. The reported sustainability information may not at all be used in relation to binding elements for this fund. A decision to invest should take into account all characteristics or objectives of the fund as described in the prospectus.
Sustainability
The fund incorporates sustainability in the investment process by the means of a target universe, exclusions, ESG integration and engagement. The fund solely invests in stocks issued by companies with a low negative to low positive impact on the SDGs. The impact of issuers on the SDGs is determined by applying Robeco's internally developed three-step SDG Framework. The outcome is a quantified contribution expressed as an SDG score, considering both the contribution to the SDGs (positive, neutral or negative) and the extent of this contribution (high, medium or low). The fund actively engages with 100% of the corporate holdings typically for a period of three to five years. The fund does not invest in stock issuers that are in breach of international norms or where activities have been deemed detrimental to society following Robeco's exclusion policy. Financially material ESG factors are integrated in the bottom-up fundamental investment analysis to assess existing and potential ESG risks and opportunities. In addition, where a stock issuer is flagged for breaching international standards in the ongoing monitoring, the issuer will become subject to exclusion. Lastly, the fund makes use of shareholder rights and applies proxy voting in accordance with Robeco's proxy voting policy.The following sections display the ESG-metrics for this fund along with short descriptions. For more information please visit the sustainability-related disclosures.The index used for all sustainability visuals is based on MSCI All Country World Index (hedged into CHF).
Market development
Central bank action front and center, first in the US, then followed by a large stimulus plan in China, pushing markets another leg higher (+1.0% in EUR; +1.8% in USD). The large 50 basis points Fed rate cut was a reinforcement of the disinflation theme and marks the start of a new rate cutting cycle. And as investors assessed how many cuts are now already priced in, market leadership began to broaden out. Shortly after, a jumbo China stimulus package accelerated this market regime change, dubbed a 'Panda Rally', tilting more in favor of year-to-date laggards. This coordinated stimulus effort propelled sentiment toward beaten-down Chinese equities, but essentially toward all pockets leveraged to China such as the metals complex and luxury goods companies. Both central bank actions indicate that growth has to be safeguarded, almost at any cost, thereby moving the market more firmly into the 'soft landing' camp.
Performance explanation
Based on transaction prices, the fund's return was 0.21%. The portfolio underperformed versus the MSCI ACWI by 143 bps in September. Within industrials, Trane Technologies and Hitachi both extended their gains, reaching new all-time highs in the month. Haleon, the consumer healthcare company, led Staples with a positive share price reaction to the launch of Eroxon, their OTC gel for erectile dysfunction. Mr Price saw further strength with their CMD mid-month being followed by analyst upgrades as well as the implementation of the 'two-pot' retirement system in South Africa, which should support consumer spending. Information technology remains a challenging sector, the largest detractor for the month as Samsung got no reprieve from weakness seen in the second half of August. Adobe also detracted from performance, having reported earnings that beat on the quarter but disappointed on guidance leading to concerns that demand trends are mixed.
Expectation of fund manager
Michiel Plakman CFA
Daniela da Costa
Peter van der Werf
Thomas Globe
As the rate-cutting narrative gathers steam and the 'soft landing' scenario becomes the consensus, stocks that have earlier been weighed down by weak balance sheets should see a lift. However, many uncertainties remain, whether it's US elections, tariff risks or escalating geopolitics in the Middle East. Pushing through measures that fix equity markets is not the same as fixing the fundamentals. Borrowing from the future to deliver in the present seems a risky proposition. And given that global equity markets are in touching distance of all-time highs again, every data point will be scrutinized. In the portfolio, we did add to attractively valued stocks with Chinese exposure that now have a clearer road of recovery ahead of them. At the same time, we keep a cool head in navigating macrocomplexities while putting most conviction in quality stocks that seem mostly agnostic to such outcomes.
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