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Dimensional Sustainability Balanced Model Portfolio

Australia

Investment

Dimensional Fund Advisors
Dimensional Fund Advisors
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Themes & Issues
Society
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Armaments

Mostly avoided

Tobacco

Mostly avoided

Fossil fuels

Partially avoided

Gambling

Partially avoided

Human rights abuses

Partially avoided

Labour rights violations

Partially avoided

Pornography

Partially avoided

Alcohol

Partially avoided

Environment
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No items found.

Armaments

Mostly avoided

Tobacco

Mostly avoided

Fossil fuels

Partially avoided

Gambling

Partially avoided

Human rights abuses

Partially avoided

Labour rights violations

Partially avoided

Pornography

Partially avoided

Alcohol

Partially avoided

For RIAA’s definitions of the themes included and issues avoided, please view this guide . Product-specific exclusion criteria and practices may vary. You can find these by referring directly to the product provider.

Overview

The Dimensional Sustainability Balanced Model Portfolio will invest in other funds managed by DFA Australia Ltd that invest in equity and fixed interest securities. The Model Portfolio will seek to target approximately 60% exposure to equities (including real estate securities) and 40% exposure to fixed interest (including cash). The actual exposure may vary from the target exposure due to trading, portfolio management or market considerations. It is intended that, within the Model Portfolio’s equities exposure, the weighting to Australian equities will be significantly greater than this asset class would represent if it were weighted according to its relative market value in relation to other countries. Dimensional takes certain environmental and social considerations into account when selecting, retaining or realising investments of the underlying funds.

Description

Dimensional takes into account certain labour standards or environmental, social, ethical or governance considerations ('Sustainability Considerations') when selecting, retaining or realising investments of the Sustainability Trusts. Specifically, Dimensional applies an assessment of a number of non-financial Sustainability Considerations it believes may be important to investors when making investment decisions for each of the Sustainability Trusts.

 

Sustainability Considerations taken into account for the Sustainability Trusts are based on available data, either actual or estimated, and our interpretation of the data. Definitions of the metrics 'revenue', ‘carbon intensity' and ‘potential emissions from reserves' used as part of applying the Sustainability Considerations are outlined in theAdditional Information Guide under the heading ‘Data definitions’ on page 12.

 

Each of the Sustainability Trusts has a carbon footprint reduction goal. Specifically, the Sustainability Trusts aim to have a reduction in weighted average carbon intensity, and reduction in weighted average potential emissions from reserves, relative to a particular benchmark index (‘Carbon Footprint Reduction Goal’) as detailed in the table below. For any Sustainability Trust that invests in other funds managed by Dimensional, such as the Dimensional Sustainability World Allocation 70/30 Trust and the Dimensional Sustainability World Equity Trust, the Carbon Footprint Reduction Goal is for each of the underlying Sustainability Trusts it is invested in to meet their respective Carbon Footprint Reduction Goals. There is no guarantee that a Sustainability Trust will meet its Carbon Footprint Reduction Goal. For more information, please refer to the Carbon Footprint Reduction Goals for the Sustainability Trusts in the Additional Information Guide on page 9.

 

Dimensional intends to achieve the Carbon Footprint Reduction Goal for each Sustainability Trust by ranking companies at a portfolio and sector level on metrics described below. Specifically, these metrics relate to carbon emissions and are applied to increase exposure (i.e. overweighting) to companies with lower emission profiles and decrease exposure (i.e. by underweighting or excluding) to companies with higher emission profiles. The following processes will be applied for the Sustainability Trusts that are Equity Trusts and Fixed Interest Trusts:

 

For the Sustainability Trusts that are Equity Trusts:


Portfolio level

From a portfolio level, securities of companies with higher emission profiles are treated in the following manner:

·          Generally, based on carbon intensity, the securities of the companies ranking in the worst 10% of a Sustainability Trust’s eligible universe by market value will be underweighted or excluded; and

·          Generally, based on potential emissions from reserves, the securities of the companies ranking in the worst 5% of a Sustainability Trust’s eligible universe by market value will be underweighted or excluded.

 

Sector level

Securities are given a Sustainability Score (defined below) and compared to sector peers. Sustainability Scores are mainly based on carbon intensity. Securities that score better against sector peers are generally overweighted and securities with worse Sustainability Scores against their peers are generally underweighted within the Sustainability Trusts. There is no pre-determined threshold for including or excluding a security based on its comparative Sustainability Score, however, securities of companies ranking in the worst 10% of their sector by market value are generally underweighted or excluded. See ‘Sustainability Scoring’ in theAdditional Information Guide on page 10 for details on the scoring methodology.

 

For the Sustainability Trusts that are Fixed Interest Trusts:


Portfolio level

From a portfolio level, securities with higher emission profiles are treated in the following manner:

·          Generally, based on Sustainability Score, corporate bonds of companies ranking in the worst 10% of a Sustainability Trust’s eligible universe by market value will be excluded;

·          Generally, securities of corporate, agency and supranational issuers with relatively high potential emissions from reserves will be excluded; and

·          Generally, securities of agency and supranational issuers whose carbon intensity is higher than the worst 10% of the corporate universe by market value will be excluded.

 

Sector level

Corporate issuers in each sector are ranked by carbon intensity and categorized as a low, medium or high carbon intensity issuer. The Sustainability Trusts that are Fixed Interest Trusts will generally overweight the group of issuers with lower carbon intensity, and underweight the group of issuers with higher carbon intensity.

 

For the Sustainability Trusts that are Equity Trusts and Fixed Interest Trusts, in relation to the Carbon Footprint Reduction Goal, the above processes mean that individual securities are evaluated relative to the broad universe of securities and against sector peers rather than against strict individual sustainability targets, such as absolute maximum emissions criteria or minimum scoring criteria. Also, because the Carbon Footprint Reduction Goal is applied at the portfolio level, the Sustainability Trusts may overweight a security which has a worse Sustainability Score compared to sector peers or other eligible securities where doing so still achieves the Carbon Footprint Reduction Goal.


Inaddition to the Carbon Footprint Reduction Goal, as part of the screeningprocess the Sustainability Trusts generally exclude companies which meetcertain involvement criteria (which include revenue thresholds) in thefollowing business practices: coal, factory farming, palm oil, controversialweapons, nuclear weapons components, systems and support services, tobacco,child labour, alcohol, gambling, adult entertainment, and personal firearms.

 

For more details regarding Dimensional's sustainability strategies, please refer to Sustainability | Dimensional Fund Advisors.

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Themes & Issues

  • 0

    themes included

  • 0

    issues fully avoided

  • 2

    issues mostly avoided

  • 6

    issues partially avoided

Product Targets

Wholesale

Institutional

Certified Since

  • 2022

Last date certified

  • May 16, 2024

Primary RI Strategy

  • Sustainability Themed

Secondary RI Strategy

  • Negative Screening