About Fund

Candriam Sustainable Equity Emerging Markets (hereafter «the fund»), a sub-fund of the Candriam Sustainable Sicav, aims to enable shareholders to benefit from the growth potential of the emerging equity markets with an investment in equities selected by the portfolio management team on a discretionary basis and to outperform the benchmark. The fund's sustainable investment objective is to contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through specific targets as well as the integration of climate related indicators in equity securities analysis and aims to have long-term positive impact on environment and social domains. More specifically the fund aims to achieve overall greenhouse gas emissions at least 30% lower than those of the benchmark. The investment horizon is 6 years. The fund is actively managed, and the investment process implies referring to a benchmark index. The Fund is intended for investors who are prepared to accept the risks of participating in emerging equity markets, together with the level of volatility generally associated therewith. For further information on the risks or the benchmark and its use, please consult the fund's key information document (KID).

Investment strategy: The fund seeks to achieve capital growth by investing in the principal assets traded and to outperform the benchmark. The management team makes discretionary investment choices on the basis of an economic/financial analysis process as well as on a Candriam's proprietary analysis of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations, both indicative of risks and long-term opportunities.The fund's sustainable investment objective is to contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through specific targets as well as the integration of climate related indicators in issuer and securities analysis.The fund also aims to have long-term positive impact on environment and social objectives. More specifically the fund aims to achieve overall greenhouse gas emissions at least 30% lower than those of the benchmark.To achieve these objectives the fund implements a combination of positive selection of the best issuers based on ESG criteria, exclusion of issuers detrimental to these objectives or deemed to prone to controversies.Issuers are subject to a two-pronged analysis considering how issuers activities contribute to achieving sustainable objectives on the one hand, and how issuers' operations and policies align with the interests of their key stakeholders on the other hand.The result of this analysis forms the basis to define the investable universe and guide fund managers in their portfolio construction.This analysis is enriched by the results of dialogs led with issuers.This investment approach will cause the fund to avoid…