Environmental Accountability Portfolio - Low Carbon

Investment Objective

Above-benchmark long-term performance through capital appreciation.

We seek to create and consistently maintain a strategy with favorable attributes relative to the benchmark index utilizing unique stock ranking models for each sector, downside risk screens and leading industry group indicators. This strategy is managed to invest in companies with more favorable environmental characteristics and to exclude companies with high carbon emissions and poor environmental ratings. However, it does not mean that there will be no, or very few, carbon creating issuers in the portfolio.

Key Tenets of Our Approach

Key 1

Proprietary, multi-factor stock selection models including environmental metrics for each sector

Key 2

Downside risk screens (e.g. earnings surprise indicators, quality of earnings)

Key 3

Leading industry group indicators, integrating top-down and bottom-up metrics

Universe

Russell 1000 Index
S&P 500 Index

Benchmark

Russell 1000 Index

Operating Target

Typically, 80-100 holdings
Existing position maximum: 2.5% for any security
Fully invested: Typically <1% cash

Limiting Exposure

Sector: +/– 3% vs. the benchmark
Industry group targets: +/– 2% vs. the benchmark
Restricts industries with high emissions intensity, such as energy and utilities

The S&P 500 Index consists of 500 widely held common stocks. This unmanaged index is a total return index with dividends reinvested.

The Russell 1000 Index is an unmanaged, market value weighted index, which measures performance of the largest 1,000 companies in the market.

One cannot invest directly in an index.

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