We are committed to providing investors with the tools to potentially seize investment opportunities while implementing their convictions. In this aim, we have designed thematic long-short ESG strategies for investors willing to generate decorrelated returns in the absolute return universe while investing sustainably.

We have designed a long-short market neutral version of our existing sustainable quant global equity strategy. It aims to take advantage of our proven systematic approach, this time in a low volatility version with a neutral market exposure. Our approach aims to extract alpha from a combination of long positions on “sustainable winners” – financially sound companies with a solid ESG strategy – and short positions on “unsustainable losers” – companies with weak financial fundamentals and that neglect ESG. Portfolio construction relies on an optimizer that balances the inputs from ESG analysis and companies’ exposure to style factors, in the aim to enhance diversification across styles, ESG dimensions, regions and sectors.

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Vincent Compiègne
Deputy Global Head of ESG Investments & Research
As pioneers in ESG investing, along the years we have developed sustainable solutions across the whole asset class spectrum return ESG solutions are a complement to our existing range.
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