The Acadian Sustainable Global Equity Fund seeks to maximise risk-adjusted, long term active returns from a diversified portfolio of global securities while actively incorporating a range of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment criteria and reducing exposure to carbon intensive companies relative to the benchmark. The option aims to outperform the MSCI World (ex Australia) Index over rolling four year periods before fees and taxes.

Acadian utilizes a systematic multi-factor investment approach while integrating a range of ESG criteria to select stocks. This includes having no exposure to stocks that derive any revenue from the production or manufacturing of tobacco and controversial weapons (including the manufacture, delivery, or provision of critical components of cluster munitions, landmines, biological & chemical weapons, blinding laser weapons, depleted uranium weapons, incendiary/white phosphorus weapons, non-detectable fragments weapons, or nuclear weapons); or more than 10% of gross revenue from the production or manufacture of products in alcohol, gambling, and adult entertainment; derive more than 20% of gross revenue from thermal coal mining or extraction of unconventional oil & gas (such as oil sands, shale oil, shale gas, and tar sands); and stocks considered to have business practices that violate the UN Global Compact (as assessed by a third party provider, MSCI), for example, those involved in very severe ESG controversies such as human rights abuses or corruption (e.g., extortion or bribery).

Acadian will target a reduction in weighted average carbon intensity (WACI) of the portfolio relative to the MSCI World ex-Australia Index of at least 20%. The fund will also target a positive (at least 10% above the index) rating for companies providing environmental solutions such as clean technologies and renewable energy (as assessed by a third-party provider, MSCI). The fund does not hedge currency risk.