ESG & SUSTAINABILITY

Trium is dedicated to achieving the best possible risk-adjusted returns for its investors and believes that Responsible Investment (“RI”) and Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) are important factors to consider when delivering this.

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Our Responsible Investment & ESG Policy

Some Trium Strategies take ESG factors into account while ensuring that assets under its stewardship are managed in a way which maximises value for its clients. ESG principles help Trium uncover company risks as is consistent with its fiduciary duty.

The different strategies managed by Trium have different approaches when it comes to implementing RI. Our fund range includes dedicated ESG products, and we can often adapt investment products to satisfy an investor’s specific ESG requirements.

Trium’s ESG approach is a continuous and long-term process, which will evolve over time to reflect changes in industry best practice, investor demands and its own internal processes.

Stewardship & Engagement

As part of its commitment to be a responsible investor, Trium engages with its investees on ESG issues within some of its strategies. We believe that engagement is an effective tool for achieving meaningful change, and we are committed to engaging with companies on a wide range of topics.

Trium recognises the importance of making considered use of voting rights as a part of Stewardship, and aims to exercise these voting rights where practicable. Further information on Trium’s approach to voting can be found in the Trium Capital Proxy Voting Policy.

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The Investor Forum

Trium became members of The Investor Forum in 2022, a practitioner-led membership organization, set up by institutional investors in UK equities. The Forum’s purpose is to position stewardship at the heart of investment decision-making by facilitating dialogue.

CDP

Trium have been signatories of the CDP since 2018, CDP is an independent organisation that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities and states to measure and manage their environmental impacts. The world’s economy looks to CDP as the gold standard of environmental reporting with the richest and most comprehensive dataset on corporate and city action. Trium participate in the CDP’s engagement campaigns, including the annual non-disclosure campaign, and the Science Based Targets initiative (‘SBTi’) campaign.

C-Level

Trium offset all carbon emissions for business flights taken by staff, and to look for ways to try and minimise the amount of emissions related to our business. To do so we have partnered with C-Level to offset these emissions. C-Level support indigenous forest projects around the world, ranging from a co-operative multi-benefit community scheme in Uganda, to mangrove conservation and development projects in Kenya, to supporting local farmers engaged in reforestation and the protection of biosphere reserves in Mexico.

Paris Agreement and TCFD

Although not signatories, Trium support the objectives of the Paris Agreement and The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (‘TCFD’). Trium support the recommendations which were published in 2017 by the TCFD, which aim to provide a framework for companies to consistently disclose on

climate-related risks and opportunities,and the potential impacts climate change could have on their financial performance in a more consistent and comparable way and look to apply these recommendations in some of its stratgies as appropriate.

Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, the United Nations agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the aim of safeguarding the planet, ending poverty, and bringing prosperity to all by 2030.

Within the asset management industry there are various initiatives to align managers with universal, global sustainability goals. Where relevant, we aim to support these.

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