Pictet Clean Energy I dy GBP

The sub-fund seeks capital growth by investing at least two-thirds of its total assets in the shares of companies worldwide that contribute to and benefit from the switch to lower-carbon energy sources. The sub-fund favours companies operating in the field of cleaner infrastructures and resources, carbon-reducing technologies and equipment, the generation, transmission and distribution of cleaner energy and energy efficiency.

Positive

Engagement Approach

Pictet has established a policy on proxy voting. This policy is based on widely accepted standards of best practice in corporate governance, with the interests of shareholders at its centre. The Fund also engages Hermes Equity Ownership Services, an external provider with a solid track record of fostering best practice in corporate governance, to engage with selected companies held in our environmental strategies.

Environment Climate Change Positive

The fund will invest to benefit from the transition to cleaner energy by targeting solutions aimed to mitigate climate change, energy supply issues and energy dependence concerns. Although the fund's investment strategy does not imply a use of positive ethical criteria, the approach is explicitly targeted at environmental technology and profits from the beneficial environmental effects.

Environment Technology Positive

The fund will invest to benefit from the transition to cleaner energy by targeting solutions aimed to mitigate climate change, energy supply issues and energy dependence concerns. Although the fund's investment strategy does not imply a use of positive ethical criteria, the approach is explicitly targeted at environmental technology and profits from the beneficial environmental effects.