Mint New Zealand SRI Equity Fund

About this fund

In their own words

Typically invests in New Zealand listed equities and has an investment objective of outperforming the S&P/NZX50 Gross Index by 2% per annum, before fees, over the medium to long-term. The Fund is designed to meet specific responsible investment criteria, with the aim of building a portfolio where the holdings in aggregate, generate a better ESG score in our systems than the benchmark S&P/NZX50 Gross Index.

Mint Asset Management is an independent investment management firm established in 2006 and based in Auckland. Mint is focused on a targeted group of investment strategies, managed by a group of highly experienced investment managers. The business is majority-owned by staff and generating investment returns is all that Mint does. Mint’s independence and size enables the firm to be flexible and create solutions specific to investor requirements.

Key Personnel

This information has been sourced from the quarterly data that each fund has filed with Disclose register to 30th Sept. 2022.

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Investment Exclusions

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).

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 the fund’s exclusion policy and thresholds may be different from the definitions applied by Mindful Money.

This data is compiled by Mindful Money from the fund information and portfolios that each fund has filed with the Disclose register to 30th Sept. 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.

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.

Past Returns

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

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 30th Sept. 2022.

Top 10 Investments

Investment Mix

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

This information has been sourced from the quarterly data that each fund has filed with Disclose register to 30th Sept. 2022.