Booster Shielded Growth Fund

Not Mindful

Fund type: Aggressive fund

Past Returns: 8.71%

Average annual returns over the past 3 years, after fees and taxes. * indicates less than 3 years of data.

Annual Fees: 2.96%

Annual fees, including management and administration fees, but not membership fee.

The graph below shows the percentage of the fund invested in each of the worst issues of concern to New Zealanders. Below the graph are listed all the companies this fund invests in, by issue of concern.

Fossil Fuel

Anglo American PLC 0.04%
Arcelormittal SA 0.01%
BHP Billiton Adr 0.27%
BHP Group Limited 0.75%
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. 0.05%
Cenovus Energy Inc. 0.02%
Cheniere Energy Inc. 0.02%
Chevron Corporation 0.03%
Conocophillips 0.08%
Devon Energy Corp. 0.02%
Diamondback Energy Inc. 0.01%
Dominion Energy Inc 0.02%
Dominion Energy Inc. 0.04%
Enbridge Inc. 0.06%
Eni Spa 0.02%
Eog Resources Inc. 0.04%
Equinor Asa 0.30%
Exxon Mobil Corp. 0.23%
Exxon Mobil Corporation 0.03%
Franco-Nevada Corp. 0.02%
Glencore PLC 0.04%
Hess Corp. 0.02%
Itochu Corp. 0.02%
Kinder Morgan Inc. 0.02%
Lyondellbasell Industries Nv Class A 0.02%
Marathon Petroleum Corp. 0.03%
Mitsubishi Corp. 0.03%
Mitsui & Co. Ltd. 0.02%
Occidental Petroleum Corp. 0.03%
Oneok Inc. 0.02%
Origin Energy Limited 0.03%
Pembina Pipeline Corp. 0.01%
Phillips 66 0.03%
Pioneer Natural Resources Co. 0.03%
Posco Holdings Inc. 0.01%
Public Service Enterprise Group Inc 0.01%
Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. 0.02%
Reliance Industries Ltd. 0.08%
Repsol SA 0.01%
Sasol Ltd. 0.01%
Saudi Arabian Oil Co. 0.02%
Shell PLC 0.13%
Suncor Energy Inc. 0.03%
Tc Energy Corp. 0.03%
Teck Resources Ltd. Class B 0.01%
Vale SA 0.05%
Williams Cos. Inc. 0.03%
Woodside Petroleum Limited 0.13%

Weapons

Amphenol Corp. Class A 0.03%
Howmet Aerospace Inc. 0.01%
L3Harris Technologies Inc. 0.03%
Larsen & Toubro Ltd. 0.01%
Safran SA 0.02%
Teledyne Technologies Inc. 0.01%
Thales SA 0.01%
Transdigm Group Inc. 0.02%

Tobacco

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. 0.03%
Altria Group Inc 0.05%
Philip Morris International Inc. 0.06%

Gambling

Aristocrat Leisure Limited 0.10%
Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc. 0.01%
Sky City Entertainment Group Ltd 0.34%
Star Entertainment Group 0.03%
Vici Properties Inc. 0.04%

Adult Entertainment/Pornography

Alcohol

Ambev SA 0.01%
Anheuser-Busch Inbev SA/Nv 0.03%
Booster Wine Group Limited Partnership 0.94%
Booster Wine Group Limited Partnership-B 0.93%
Booster Wine Group Loan Facility 0.01%
Brown-Forman Corp. Class B 0.01%
Constellation Brands Inc. Class A 0.06%
Diageo PLC 0.09%
Heineken Nv 0.02%
Kweichow Moutai Co. Ltd. Class A 0.02%
LVMH 0.02%
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA 0.34%
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Se 0.11%
Non-Taxable Accrual - Booster Wine Group Lp 0.09%
Pernod Ricard SA 0.03%

Palm Oil

GMOs

Corteva Inc. 0.03%

Human Rights & Environmental Violations

Activision Blizzard Inc. 0.04%
BHP Billiton Adr 0.27%
BHP Group Limited 0.75%
Barrick Gold Corp. 0.03%
Bayer AG 0.04%
Chevron Corporation 0.02%
Duke Energy Corp. 0.05%
Duke Energy Corporation 0.03%
Freeport-Mcmoran Inc. 0.04%
Glencore PLC 0.04%
Grupo Mexico Sab De Cv Class B 0.01%
Johnson & Johnson 0.30%
Li Ning Co. Ltd. 0.02%
Motorola Solutions Inc. 0.02%
Mtn Group Ltd. 0.01%
Nestle SA 0.28%
Petroleo Brasileiro SA 0.02%
Petroleo Brasileiro SA Preference Shares 0.02%
Pg&E Corp. 0.01%
Posco Holdings Inc. 0.01%
Rio Tinto Limited 0.06%
Rio Tinto PLC 0.06%
Shell PLC 0.13%
Uber Technologies Inc. 0.03%
Vale SA 0.05%

Animal Testing

Air Liquide SA 0.05%
Akzo Nobel Nv 0.01%
Albemarle Corp. 0.02%
Altria Group Inc 0.05%
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. 0.03%
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company 0.03%
Avantor Inc. 0.01%
Basf Se 0.03%
Bayer AG 0.04%
Chevron Corporation 0.02%
Church & Dwight Co. Inc. 0.03%
Coca-Cola Co. 0.17%
Coca-Cola Company 0.13%
Corteva Inc. 0.03%
Danone SA 0.03%
Dow Inc. 0.03%
Dupont De Nemours Inc. 0.02%
Ecolab Inc. 0.03%
Estee Lauder Companies Inc. Class A 0.04%
Estee Lauder Cos. Inc. Class A 0.04%
Formosa Plastics Corp. 0.01%
Fujifilm Holdings Corp. 0.01%
General Mills Inc. 0.05%
Givaudan SA 0.02%
Glaxosmithkline 0.01%
Glaxosmithkline PLC 0.07%
Hermes International 0.03%
Hindustan Unilever Ltd. 0.02%
Hp Inc. 0.03%
Ingersoll Rand Inc. 0.01%
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. 0.02%
Johnson & Johnson 0.30%
Kao Corp. 0.01%
Kellogg Company 0.01%
Kerry Group PLC Class A 0.01%
Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. 0.02%
Kimberly-Clark Corp. 0.03%
Kimberly-Clark Corporation 0.03%
Koninklijke Dsm Nv 0.02%
Kraft Heinz Co. 0.02%
Kraft Heinz Company 0.02%
L'Oreal SA 0.28%
LVMH 0.02%
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA 0.34%
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Se 0.11%
Lair Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour 0.01%
Linde PLC 0.35%
Loreal SA 0.01%
Lyondellbasell Industries Nv Class A 0.02%
Marubeni Corp. 0.01%
Mondelez International Inc. Class A 0.11%
Mosaic Co. 0.02%
Nan Ya Plastics Corp. 0.01%
Nestle SA 0.28%
Nutrien Ltd. 0.04%
PPG Industries Inc. 0.02%
Pepsico Inc. 0.26%
Philip Morris International Inc. 0.06%
Procter & Gamble Co. 0.25%
Procter & Gamble Company 0.18%
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC 0.04%
Reliance Industries Ltd. 0.08%
Sasol Ltd. 0.01%
Shell PLC 0.13%
Sherwin-Williams Co. 0.04%
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd. 0.03%
Shiseido Co. Ltd. 0.01%
Tesco PLC 0.02%
Unilever PLC 0.09%

This data is compiled by Mindful Money from the fund information and portfolios that each fund has filed with the Disclose register to Thu March 31st 2022 and Mindful Money analysis of funds within those portfolios. The list of companies of concern has been drawn from ratings agencies and public sources, including the Norwegian Sovereign Fund, NZ Super Fund, Sustainalytics and research organisations.

Please note that companies may breach more than one of these areas of concern.

Mindful Money uses the term Mindful Funds as our standard for ethical investment and responsible investment. This does not imply that other funds are unethical or that the fund providers that do not meet these standards are unethical providers.

Past annual returns for this fund are after fees and taxes. Please note that higher past returns do not always mean higher future returns.

Year	Market Average	Fund Annual Return
2022	3.19%	2.33%
2021	36.07%	27.15%
2020	-7.33%	-3.36%

The market average is the average return for funds of the same risk category, sourced from the Commission for Financial Capability's Sorted website. The fund information has been sourced from the quarterly data that each fund has filed with Disclose register to Thu March 31st 2022.

Showing the top 10 investments for this fund:

Vanguard Int'L Shares Select Exclusions Fund - NZD Hgd
Australia Fund

32.59%
Vanguard Emerging Markets Share Index Fund
Australia Fund

5.36%
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Ltd
New Zealand Australasian Equities

1.93%
Vanguard Int'L Prop Sec. Index Fund (AUD Hgd)
Australia Fund

1.89%
Vanguard Ethically Conscious Gbl Agg Bond Index Fund NZD Hgd
Australia Fund

1.84%
Auckland International Airport Limited
New Zealand Australasian Equities

1.67%
Vanguard ESG US Stock ETF
United States Fund

1.4%
Spark New Zealand Limited
New Zealand Australasian Equities

1.21%
Ishares Msci Europe ESG ETF
Germany Fund

1.17%
Ishares S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries ETF
Australia Fund

1.16%

This information has been sourced from the quarterly data that each fund has filed with Disclose register Thu March 31st 2022.

How the money in this fund is invested against the fund's targets.

Target

Actual

Type	Target	Actual
Cash and Cash Equivalents	1.0%	4.15%
New Zealand Fixed Interest	0.0%	1.85%
International Fixed Interest	0.0%	2.06%
Australasian Equities	33.0%	27.81%
International Equities	55.0%	60.06%
Listed Properties	3.0%	3.68%
Unlisted Properties	8.0%	0.39%
Other	0.0%	0.0%
Commodities	0.0%	0.0%

This information has been sourced from the quarterly data that each fund has filed with Disclose register to Thu March 31st 2022.

Does this fund exclude companies that cause deep concern to New Zealanders? The first column shows if the fund has a credible policy to exclude the issue. The second column shows if there are any current investments (source: Mindful Money research).

The Fund may have investments that are not consistent with their exclusions policy because they are still in the process of implementing their policy.

Issue of concern

Does this fund say it excludes this?

Actual holdings
Adult Entertainment/Pornography:

0.03%
Alcohol:

2.82%
Animal Testing:

4.92%
Fossil Fuels:

3.48%
Gambling:

0.59%
GMOs:

0.03%
Human Rights & Environmental Violations:

2.52%
Palm Oil:

0.02%
Tobacco:

0.15%
Weapons:

0.21%

Note that the fund’s exclusions policy may not be consistent with its portfolio holdings because the fund might be still implementing its policy change or their policy may be less stringent than the definitions applied by Mindful Money.

Note that many funds exclude controversial weapons. However, the category of Weapons used in this analysis is broader in scope, covering all munitions, firearms and military weapons. Similarly Mindful Money uses a broader scope for fossil fuels than the government’s rules for default KiwiSaver funds. The full definitions used in the Mindful Money analysis are here.

In their own words

"The Shielded Growth Fund is part of the Investment Series range of funds. The fund invests predominantly in growth assets and uses options contracts to partially ‘shield’ the fund against (limit the impact of) more significant short-term downward movements of the value of the fund’s investments. It is suited to investors who are comfortable with a medium to high level of risk in order to potentially achieve relatively higher returns, but who are willing to forgo some return due to the cost of the options strategy."

Value	$11M NZD
Period of data report	Thu March 31st 2022
Fund started	Thu May 31st 2018
Total annual fund fees	2.96%
Total performance based fees	0.0%
Manager's basic fee	2.89%
Other management and administration charges	0.07%
Total other charges	0.0
Total other charges currency	NZD

Key Personnel

Nic Craven	Currently: Chief Investment Officer, Booster Financial Services Limited (0 years, 8 months) Previously: Senior Manager - Research, Booster Financial Services Limited (3 years, 2 months)
David Beattie	Currently: Principal, Booster Financial Services Limited (3 years, 10 months) Previously: CIO, Booster Financial Services Limited (17 years, 6 months)
Allan Yeo	Currently: Managing Director, Booster Financial Services Limited (23 years, 10 months) Previously: Associate Director, Barclays Bank plc (2 years, 0 months)
Aaron Usher	Currently: Portfolio Strategy Manager, Booster Financial Services Limited (0 years, 8 months) Previously: Portfolio Manager - Australasian Equities, Booster Financial Services Limited (3 years, 9 months)
Rowan Calvert	Currently: Portfolio Manager - Global Equities, Booster Financial Services Limited (4 years, 5 months) Previously: Senior Equity Analyst, Booster Financial Services Limited (7 years, 4 months)