Guinness Global Environment Fund
The Guinness Global Environment strategy seeks capital growth and invests in high-quality companies benefiting from the growth in demand for essential environmental resources.
This fund is registered for distribution in Ireland only and is not available for sale in other jurisdictions.
Overview
The Guinness Global Environment Fund invests in companies providing environmental solutions which contribute to reducing environmental resource use or intensity, or to protecting and enhancing environmental resource supply. The environmental resources targeted are food, water, climate, waste, and land, and their adjacent supply chains.
A growing global population and increasing prosperity are straining the supply for environmental resources as higher GDP per capita brings greater demand for resources such as energy, food, water and agricultural land.
Companies offering environmental solutions are already benefiting from the powerful long-term growth drivers of demographics, decarbonisation and resource scarcity.
By investing in companies with high-quality characteristics and reasonable valuations, the Guinness Global Environment Fund offers advantaged and distinctive exposure to the environment theme.
Investment Team
High quality funds are run by high quality people.
We are proud of our collegial culture, with teams across the business benefiting from each other’s expertise as they target long-term returns for investors.
How to Invest
We aim to make it simple to invest in our funds. All our funds are open to direct investment via an application form. They are widely available on investment platforms and are eligible for UK investors’ ISAs and SIPPs.
Why invest in environment?
Structural growth
The global population is forecast to grow by 20% by 2050. Global gross domestic product, meanwhile, is expected to more than double, resulting in an increase in GDP per capita of 70%. Greater wealth is strongly associated with higher consumption, meaning that demand for scarce resources such as energy, food, water and fertile land are expected to outgrow GDP. Source: PWC - The Long View How will the global economic order change by 2050?
Supply-demand imbalance
Many environmental resources are inherently limited in supply. At the same time, urbanisation and the energy transition are changing the way we use them. This creates a structural opportunity for companies offering environmental solutions in the five key areas of food, water, climate, waste, and land.
An established investment theme
We identify over 500 globally listed companies exposed to the environment theme. Not only does this group suggest ample scope to select only the best opportunities, but it has already displayed attractive growth characteristics compared to the wider universe of listed companies.
How does the fund invest in environment?
The investment process incorporates both top-down and bottom-up considerations to select high-quality companies exposed to the environment theme. Top-down, the strategy aims to give investors exposure to multiple long-term structural growth themes, strategically biasing towards companies displaying above-average returns on capital and earnings growth. Bottom-up, the strategy invests in mature businesses and defensive business models with a proven, repeatable recipe for success.
Why invest in the Guinness Global Environment Fund?
Durable growth theme
Environment represents a major secular growth theme with a broad opportunity set of mature companies to choose from.
Expertise in thematic investing
Co-managers Jordan Patel and Jamie Melrose have over 20 years’ combined experience in environmental equities, building on a track record of thematic investing at Guinness Global Investors dating to 2003.
Value discipline
We apply bottom-up valuation analysis to avoid over-paying for the growth potential we have identified.
High conviction
With 30 broadly equally weighted positions, our portfolio applies conviction to every stock while balancing concentration and stock-specific risk.
Quality approach
Our disciplined quality approach based on return on capital leads us towards stocks creating real value and aids repeatability.
Differentiation
Our focus on quality gives us a different portfolio to peers and helps us avoid exposure to businesses which cannot capitalise on the opportunity.
Aligning capital with positive outcomes
By investing in companies providing environmental solutions, the fund offers a vehicle for investors to align their capital with better use of the world’s resources.
Documents
Fund Facts
For information on the Fund’s current investments, please see the latest factsheet available on the literature tab above.
Share Classes
For full information on the share classes available for investment please refer to the Key Investor Information document.
Fund Prices
The Funds are priced every working day at 23.00 Dublin time and updated here the following day.