Schroder ISF* Circular Economy

A fund addressing the imbalance between the supply and demand of the Earth's resources

The circular economy is much more than an environmental theme, it's an economic imperative

The demand for the Earth’s resources are already exceeding supply, creating a large profit opportunity for companies that can close this resource gap.

Schroder ISF* Circular Economy invests in listed companies at the forefront of the transition to a circular economy. It looks to identify companies helping to develop products and services focused on efficiency, reusability, and recyclability while simultaneously designing out waste and pollution.

*Schroder International Selection Fund is referred to as Schroder ISF

The circular economy is a fundamental shift from a take-make-waste consumption approach to one that focuses on reusability of resources, a take-make-reuse approach.

Fund highlights

Pure play

To capitalise on the circular economy opportunity, we are investing in firms at the forefront of this enormous development. These companies are seeing excellent growth and returns from the need for greater resource efficiency.

Diverse opportunity set

The circular economy opportunity sits across multiple sectors and geographies, offering diversified exposure to secular growth, without reliance on any one theme “playing out”. We are style agnostic.

Authentic approach

Schroder ISF Circular Economy is a SFDR Article 9 fund, investing only in solutions providers that further the circular economy. Our investment approach is underpinned by our development of a proprietary Circular Score.

The three key drivers of the circular economy transition

  1. Resource overconsumption: The resource consumption rate is unsustainable.
  2. Climate change: There is no net zero without the circular economy.
  3. Biodiversity: Reducing raw material demand arrests this decline.

Global resources are being consumed at an unsustainable rate. A $25 trillion gap between consumption and supply is expected by 2050**.

**Source: Accenture, 2015

Why now?

Governments

Policy support and target setting support closing the economic loop - the gap between resource demand and supply.

Consumers

Sustainability of products and services are driving higher environmental standards.

Technology

Material science advances and digitisation are enabling the circular economy transition.

Learn more

You can find more information on the fund, including literature and performance data, on our fund centre website.

Portfolio manager

Schroder ISF Circular Economy

Jack Dempsey

Fund Manager

Risk considerations

Concentration risk: The fund may be concentrated in a limited number of geographical regions, industry sectors, markets and/or individual positions. This may result in large changes in the value of the fund, both up or down.

Counterparty risk: The fund may have contractual agreements with counterparties. If a counterparty is unable to fulfil their obligations, the sum that they owe to the fund may be lost in part or in whole.

Currency risk: The fund may lose value as a result of movements in foreign exchange rates, otherwise known as currency rates.

Derivatives risk: Derivatives, which are financial instruments deriving their value from an underlying asset, may be used to manage the portfolio efficiently. A derivative may not perform as expected, may create losses greater than the cost of the derivative and may result in losses to the fund.

Higher volatility risk: The price of this fund may be more volatile as it may take higher risks in search of higher rewards, meaning the price may go up and down to a greater extent.

Liquidity risk: In difficult market conditions, the fund may not be able to sell a security for full value or at all. This could affect performance and could cause the fund to defer or suspend redemptions of its shares, meaning investors may not be able to have immediate access to their holdings.

Market risk: The value of investments can go up and down and an investor may not get back the amount initially invested.

Operational risk: Operational processes, including those related to the safekeeping of assets, may fail. This may result in losses to the fund.

Performance risk: Investment objectives express an intended result but there is no guarantee that such a result will be achieved. Depending on market conditions and the macro economic environment, investment objectives may become more difficult to achieve.

Sustainability risk: The fund has the objective of sustainable investment. This means it may have limited exposure to some companies, industries or sectors and may forego certain investment opportunities, or dispose of certain holdings, that do not align with its sustainability criteria chosen by the investment manager. The fund may invest in companies that do not reflect the beliefs and values of any particular investor.

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