How we evaluate products
Responsible Investment strategies, processes, practices and disclosures are assessed against the eight criteria for product certification in the Responsible Investment Standard and accompanying Guidance and Assessment Notes.
What are the requirements?
In order to certify products as certified responsible investments, RIAA assesses them against its RI Certification Standard. The Certification Standard is underpinned by eight requirements that act as the guiding principles of the RI Certification Program. Since its inception the RI Certification Standard has evolved significantly, reflecting the dynamic evolution of responsible investment. These eight requirements are:
- RI strategies are formal, disclosed, consistent, auditable and fit for purpose
- Labels are clear, honest and not misleading
- Product avoids significant harm
- Discloses full holdings, performance, sustainability outcomes and engagement and voting practices
- Managed by active stewards, and managers can detail the stewardship practices and outcomes
- Organisation has formal commitment to responsible investment
- Organisation provides educational information to members and customers about RI strategies
What this symbol means


General certification: This Symbol signifies that a product or service offers an investment style that takes into account environmental, social, governance or ethical considerations, and that it adheres to the operational and disclosure practices required under the Responsible Investment Certification Program for the category of Product.


Sustainable Plus classification: This Symbol signifies that a product or service has been certified and classified to offer an investment style that takes into account environmental, social, governance or ethical considerations, with embedded, measurable and reported sustainability objectives aligned with portfolio holdings and stewardship practices, adhering to the operational and disclosure practices required under the Responsible Investment Certification Program for the category of Product.
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Themes & Issues
Society
Education
Included
Healthcare and medical products
Included
Impact investments
Included
Renewable energy and energy efficiency
Included
Social and sustainable infrastructure
Included
Armaments
Fully avoided
Gambling
Fully avoided
Human rights abuses
Fully avoided
Labour rights violations
Fully avoided
Illegal logging
Fully avoided
Nuclear power
Fully avoided
Pornography
Fully avoided
Tobacco
Fully avoided
Alcohol
Fully avoided
Animal cruelty
Partially avoided
Fossil fuels
Partially avoided
Environment
Education
Included
Healthcare and medical products
Included
Impact investments
Included
Renewable energy and energy efficiency
Included
Social and sustainable infrastructure
Included
Armaments
Fully avoided
Gambling
Fully avoided
Human rights abuses
Fully avoided
Labour rights violations
Fully avoided
Illegal logging
Fully avoided
Nuclear power
Fully avoided
Pornography
Fully avoided
Tobacco
Fully avoided
Alcohol
Fully avoided
Animal cruelty
Partially avoided
Fossil fuels
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
F2 will invest in businesses and assets that meet a social and economic need. Target Investments includeoperating companies with strong management teams and growth potential across the Asia-Pacific region, and suchother jurisdictions as determined by the Investment Manager, exercising its good faith judgment. Key opportunitysets that are expected to continue to provide potential Target Investments include:
Healthcare
- Facilities management businesses, such as hospitals and other tertiary care providers, dayclinics, speciality facilities and GP clinics
- Healthcare services businesses, with defensible barriers to entry
- Healthcare product businesses
Technology
- B2B and B2C businesses with large total addressable markets and strong points ofdifferentiation
- Technology-adjuncts to non-technology businesses
Care
- Social infrastructure including but not limited to childcare, housing for the disabled, socialand affordable housing, hospitals and healthcare facilities, aged care facilities, medicalcentres
Sustainability
- Renewable energy generation activities, including wind, solar and other renewabletechnologies, grid-scale, embedded, behind-the-meter
- Renewable energy storage activities, including chemical, hydrological, pneumatic and otheremerging storage technologies including hydrogen
- Sustainable infrastructure including but not limited to waste treatment, recycling, waste-to energy, and waste management facilities, desalination, water and or seweragetreatment/networks, telecommunications infrastructure
Education
- Operating businesses with regulatory support and demographic tailwinds
- Social infrastructure including but not limited to schools and educational facilities, conventioncentres, student accommodation, sports stadiums, and other educational/university facilities
Financial
- Credit businesses with large total addressable markets, strong underwriting policies andprocedures, and significant asset coverage
Specialist
- Opportunities for outsized return for a given level of risk in restructuring and turnaroundscenarios in sectors where the Federation team has a strong background
Description
Federation seeks to invest in areas that positively select for responsible investment and has made the following undertakings to focus on;• Renewable energy generation activities, including wind, solar and other renewable technologies, grid-scale, embedded, behind-the meter; • Renewable energy storage activities, including chemical, hydrological, pneumatic and other emerging storage technologies including hydrogen;• Sustainable infrastructure including but not limited to waste treatment, recycling, waste-to-energy, and waste management facilities, desalination, water and or sewerage treatment/networks, telecommunications infrastructure;• Social infrastructure including but not limited to childcare, housing for the disabled, social and affordable housing, hospitals and healthcare facilities, aged care facilities, medical centres, schools and educational facilities, convention centres, sports stadiums, student accommodation and other educational/university facilities;• Property investments generally where there is a significant impact investing or environmental component; and embedded networks and micro-grid infrastructure where there is, or will be, significant use of renewable energy and/or efficiency gains; and• Operating businesses whose products and/or services provide a net societal benefitFederation is committed to responsible investment and endeavours to utilise negative screens that aim to exclude investments in companies that are materially involved in the following;• Fossil fuels, including any company that mines, burns or extracts fossil fuels or in companies that provide specific and significant services to fossil fuel industries; and• Gambling, tobacco and alcohol, armaments and militarism, live animal export and old growth logging.Federation's investment team consider ESG issues as critical to any investment made by Federation. This is implemented through positive screens, negative screens and an assessment of ESG factors at investment committee.
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Themes & Issues
5
themes included
9
issues fully avoided
0
issues mostly avoided
2
issues partially avoided
Product Targets
Wholesale
Retail
Institutional
Certified Since
2020
Last date certified
March 15, 2023
Primary RI Strategy
Positive Screening
Secondary RI Strategy
Negative Screening