1. The European Regulations are the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2019/2088) (SFDR). This regulation is designed to improve transparency in relation to sustainability risks and impacts in relation to financial products in the market and make it easier for investors to distinguish and compare the available sustainable investing strategies. Article 8 Funds consider ESG factors as part of their investment process, but they do not have a specific sustainability objective. Beyond any binding ESG constraints in the strategy and baseline exclusions policy, the investment manager retains discretion over final investment decisions, taking into account wider risk factors.
2. Active bias, the fund manager makes active investment decisions on an ongoing basis.
3. Passive bias, the fund is managed to longer-term investment objectives with few short-term active investment decisions being made
4. Fixed Allocation Funds combine equities and bonds, with a fixed allocation to each asset class which are rebalanced monthly.
5. Systematic active investing is a way of managing money that follows specific rules instead of relying on the opinions of fund managers. It uses academic research to find strategies that aim to do better than just sticking to a simple index or market average.
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