HSBC GIF Global Equity Climate Transition
The fund aims to deliver long-term total return by investing in companies supporting, or benefiting from, the transition to a lower-carbon economy.
View fund details: HSBC GIF Global Equity Climate Transition
- Provides access to a broad investable universe: Its reference benchmark is the MSCI World Index, representing equities from developed markets globally, spanning over 20 countries and more than 1,600 stocks
- Climate Focused investment Approach: The strategy targets investments in securities that are demonstrably progressing towards climate transition, alongside green solutions that enables this shift
Integrating Sustainability in our Multi-Factor approach
- Fully bottom-up stock assessment: a comprehensive bottom-up evaluation of individual stocks data to ensure the portfolio aligns with a clear and measurable transition pathway
 Carbon intensity |
 Climate Transition |
 Green Solutions |
- Leverages Proprietary Multi-Factor investment process: aiming to provide better returns than traditional benchmarks while diversifying risk
Our custom process allows us to invest in the climate transition while at the same time seeking to generate returns that are better than the benchmark
Focused on the climate transition through three key aspects
- Transitioning companies: Using our internal Net Zero Investment Framework classification, we aim to significantly invest in companies that are aligned, aligning or committed to aligning with climate goals. This approach seeks to reduce the portfolio’s implied temperature rise (ITR*) compared to the reference benchmark
- Green Solutions: As facilitators of the transition, we strive to enhance the fund’s exposure to green solutions compared to the benchmark
- Conscious carbon allocation: responsible reduction of the fund’s carbon intensity, respecting the carbon distribution of the real-world economy and avoiding sector biases
*Implied temperature rise: a forward looking temperature alignment metric that estimates the global temperature increase if the entire economy behaved like the companies invested in the portfolio.
Key Risks
The value of an investment in the portfolios and any income from them can go down as well as up and as with any investment you may not receive back the amount originally invested.
- Callable Bond Risk: Any unexpected behaviour in interest rates could negatively impact the performance of callable debt securities (securities whose issuers have the right to pay off the security’s principal before the maturity date)
- Concentration Risk: The Fund may be concentrated in a limited number of securities, economic sectors and/or countries. As a result, it may be more volatile and have a greater risk of loss than more broadly diversified funds
- Counterparty Risk: The possibility that the counterparty to a transaction may be unwilling or unable to meet its obligations
- Credit Risk: A bond or money market security could lose value if the issuer’s financial health deteriorates
- Default Risk: The issuers of certain bonds could become unwilling or unable to make payments on their bonds.
- Derivatives Risk: Derivatives can behave unexpectedly. The pricing and volatility of many derivatives may diverge from strictly reflecting the pricing or volatility of their underlying reference(s), instrument or asset
- Emerging Markets Risk: Emerging markets are less established, and often more volatile, than developed markets and involve higher risks, particularly market, liquidity and currency risks
- Exchange Rate Risk: Changes in currency exchange rates could reduce or increase investment gains or investment losses, in some cases significantly
- Index Tracking Risk: To the extent that the Fund seeks to replicate index performance by holding individual securities, there is no guarantee that its composition or performance will exactly match that of the target index at any given time (“tracking error”)
- Interest Rate Risk: When interest rates rise, bond values generally fall. This risk is generally greater the longer the maturity of a bond investment and the higher its credit quality
- Investment Fund Risk: Investing in other funds involves certain risks an investor would not face if investing in markets directly. Governance of underlying assets can be the responsibility of third party managers
- Investment Leverage Risk: Investment Leverage occurs when the economic exposure is greater than the amount invested, such as when derivatives are used. A Fund that employs leverage may experience greater gains and/or losses due to the amplification effect from a movement in the price of the reference source
- Liquidity Risk: Liquidity Risk is the risk that a Fund may encounter difficulties meeting its obligations in respect of financial liabilities that are settled by delivering cash or other financial assets, thereby compromising existing or remaining investors
- Operational Risk: Operational risks may subject the Fund to errors affecting transactions, valuation, accounting, and financial reporting, among other things
- Real Estate Investments Risk: Real estate and related investments can be negatively impacted by any factor that makes an area or individual property less valuable
- Sustainability Risk: Sustainability risk means an environmental, social or governance event or condition that, if it occurs, could cause an actual or a potential material negative impact on the value of the investment
