There is no one-size-fits-all approach to ESG
We know that client preferences around ESG can vary, and there are different ways to incorporate those preferences into an investment strategy.
How does Vanguard approach ESG?
We offer a selection of ESG products that employ different approaches.
Avoid
We offer products that avoid, or reduce exposure to specific industries such as firearms, tobacco, fossil fuels, gambling or adult entertainment, while seeking to achieve a market-like return.
Allocate
We offer funds which aim to deliver sustainable, long-term growth for investors who prefer active management and hope to achieve certain ESG outcomes.
Integrate
Whilst we offer actively managed funds which are not built with specific ESG outcomes in mind, the fund managers assess the materiality of risks, including ESG risks, as a part of their investment process.
Engage
Our global Investment Stewardship team engages with portfolio companies on behalf of our equity index funds and ETFs.
ESG index products
Some investors want to limit their exposure to certain industries or business activities
that pose heightened ESG-related risks, or conflict with their ESG preferences.
Vanguard offers products that avoid, or reduce exposure to, specific industries while still seeking to achieve a market-like return.
See all our ESG exclusionary funds
Equity ESG exclusion funds and ETFs
Vanguard's ESG equity index products help investors avoid or reduce exposure to controversial business activities and/or conduct.
ESG Developed World All Cap Equity Index Fund
ESG Emerging Markets All Cap Equity Index Fund
Fixed income exclusion funds and ETFs
Vanguard’s ESG fixed income exclusionary index products help investors avoid or reduce exposure to controversial business activities and/or conduct.
ESG Global Corporate Bond Index Fund
Investment risk information
The value of investments, and the income from them, may fall or rise and investors may get back less than they invested.
Some funds invest in emerging markets which can be more volatile than more established markets. As a result the value of your investment may rise or fall.
Investments in smaller companies may be more volatile than investments in well-established blue chip companies.
Funds investing in fixed interest securities carry the risk of default on repayment and erosion of the capital value of your investment and the level of income may fluctuate. Movements in interest rates are likely to affect the capital value of fixed interest securities. Corporate bonds may provide higher yields but as such may carry greater credit risk increasing the risk of default on repayment and erosion of the capital value of your investment. The level of income may fluctuate and movements in interest rates are likely to affect the capital value of bonds.
The Funds may use derivatives in order to reduce risk or cost and/or generate extra income or growth. The use of derivatives could increase or reduce exposure to underlying assets and result in greater fluctuations of the Fund's net asset value. A derivative is a financial contract whose value is based on the value of a financial asset (such as a share, bond, or currency) or a market index.
Some funds invest in securities which are denominated in different currencies. Movements in currency exchange rates can affect the return of investments.
For further information on risks please see the “Risk Factors” section of the prospectus.
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