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Stewart Investors manage investment portfolios on behalf of our clients over the long term and have held shares in some companies for over 20 years. They launched their first investment strategy in 1988.
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Our strategy is to lead change
As long-term investors, we know that the investment decisions we make today impact communities in the future.
First Sentier Investors places responsible investment at the heart of what we do. We are entrusted with our clients’ money, and we invest it with today and tomorrow in mind. Every investment team has the autonomy to develop their own approach to ESG issues, but the common thread is a focus on considering how investment decisions will impact clients, communities and the environment.
Our strategic approach to responsible investment continues to focus on enhancing the quality and relevance of our investment capabilities, embedding a culture of stewardship across the organisation and engaging all of our employees in our responsible investment work.
Benchmarking our progress
Our approach to responsible investment and stewardship is designed to deliver the best possible long-term outcomes for our clients.
As industry practice continues to evolve, we continue to look for standards and industry codes to benchmark ourselves against. These help us both to identify areas where we can make improvements and to guide the development of our reporting and disclosure mechanisms, in turn enabling us to increase transparency.
Two important independent standards against which we benchmark ourselves are the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Assessment ratings and the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA) Benchmark Report.
We have been a Signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment since 2007. Our PRI Assessment results provide a useful independent benchmark of our progress against industry peers. In 2023, PRI introduced a number of new questions and modules, and merged/shifted a number of modules. This means our scores changed for a number of modules. In 2023, we achieved 5 stars on Fixed Income Corporate, Fixed Income Securitised, Fixed Income Private Debt, Direct Infrastructure, and Confidence Building Measures. For additional information, you can read our PRI Assessment Report or access the PRI Transparency Report on the UN PRI’s website.
There were changes in the assessment methodology from 2020 to 2021, with 2021 being a pilot of a new methodology1. Module scores have moved from alphabetical grading (A to E+) to a new numerical grading system ranging from 1 to 5 stars (with 5 stars being the highest grade) in 2021 to reflect that scores for the 2021 reporting cycle cannot be compared to previous years.
1 Absolute grading has been adopted in order to achieve a more balanced distribution of scores than under the previous methodology.
PRI Assessment Report summaries
2023 scores
2021 scores (pilot published in 2022)
2014-2020 scores
In 2020 we scored an ‘A+’ rating in 7 of the 8 categories against which we are assessed and ‘A’ in the 8th1.
1 Responsible Investment Association of Australasia, From Values to Riches 2020
Responsible Investment Leader 2024
We are proud to be recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader, the highest possible standard for investors, by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA). This recognises our commitment to responsible investing and attributes as an investment manager.
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Stewardship Report
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First Sentier Investors is an active investment manager with a diverse range of individual and autonomous investment teams who share a commitment to responsible investment.
First Sentier Investors became a Certified B Corporation in November 2022 with a score = 107.2, noting that the passing score is 80. Please visit the B Corp Directory to view our report and for additional information regarding the assessment process.
Investment involves risks. Past performance is not indicative of future performance. Refer to the offering documents of the respective funds for details, including risk factors. Investors may not get back the full amount invested.
This website is issued by First Sentier Investors (Singapore) whose company registration number is 196900420D and has not been reviewed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. First Sentier Investors (registration number 53236800B), FSSA Investment Managers (registration number 53314080C), Igneo Infrastructure Partners (registration number 53447928J), RQI Investors (registration number 53472532E) and Stewart Investors (registration number 53310114W) are business divisions of First Sentier Investors (Singapore).