Responsible Investing

Our role as active long-term investors means engagement and this is fundamental to our investment process. We seek to actively engage with key stakeholders: from suppliers and clients to employees and executive / non-executive management, among others. We believe these actions not only build our understanding of business but help to establish standards and facilitate the disclosure of material information. In terms of sovereign credit and other supranational bodies, our ESG approach has been adapted to suit the asset class, so that we engage with the institutions that feed into international policy rather than directly with governments themselves (such as the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), the United Nations Environmental Programme Finance Initiative or the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)). Our GRI team leads this engagement.

We have built a system for integrating ESG factors to help investment teams make investment choices that offer sustainable and long-term risk adjusted returns; however, our GRI team continues to investigate new avenues for a deeper understanding of ESG risks and opportunities, strengthening processes, as well as augmenting the work of our investment teams. The GRI team is responsible for developing our firm level responses to systemic ESG related factors such as climate change or fraud and corruption, while also supporting proxy voting activities.

ESG factors are heterogeneous, and differ by industry and region, and our response should therefore be tailored. Our investment teams constantly evaluate not only the exposure to a particular factor but also the response to and management of it. There are likely to be a number of factors impacting any one company or country, be they ESG related or connected to some of the more traditional metrics of active investment. Our process seeks to systematically balance all of these various factors against each other so that the right investment choice is ultimately made, enabling us to provide long-term sustainable solutions suitable for our clients’ unique set of needs and investment goals.

Article 3 - Transparency of sustainability risk policies

Information about the integration of sustainability risks in our investment decision-making process can be found in our Responsible Investment Policy here

Article 4 - Transparency of adverse sustainability impacts at entity level

GAM Investments considers the principal adverse impacts of investment decisions on sustainability factors
Our Principal Adverse Impacts Statement can be found here

GAM’s Group Compensation Policy can be found here

Article 6 – Transparency of the integration of sustainability risks
Article 8 – Transparency of the promotion of environmental or social characteristics in pre‐contractual disclosures
Article 9 – Transparency of sustainable investments in pre‐contractual disclosures

Pre-contractual disclosures can be found in the relevant fund pages accessed via the gam.com fund list

These disclosures cover all UCITS management companies, Alternative Investment Fund Managers, and investment firms within GAM Holding AG ‘(‘GAM ‘Investments’ or ‘’we’), that fall under the definition of Financial Market Participants and/or Financial Advisers within Art. 2 of EU Regulation 2019/2088 (“SFDR).