Investment Solutions Offering
V-Square’s experienced portfolio management team has a proven track record managing index portfolios (plain vanilla, thematic, risk-premia and ESG) across developed, emerging and frontier markets; bringing together specialized expertise and thought leadership. With nearly 2.961 million indexes available globally, we understand the complexity asset owners and intermediaries experience in selecting the right benchmark to reflect their strategic or tactical asset allocation model.
We believe in the importance of selecting an asset manager who understands the nuances of benchmarks, and possesses ESG research acumen along with the ability to customize and innovate to achieve the investors targeted exposure. We manage passive, risk premia and customized strategies in both separate client accounts and pooled funds. Our portfolios seek to provide efficient market exposure while integrating sustainability and closely tracking the standard or customized ESG indexes that institutional or intermediary investors may select.
Standard | ESG Equities |
Large and Mid-Cap US All Cap US Global, World Developed International (ex-USA and Canada) World (Developed + Emerging) |
ESG Fixed Income |
Ultra-Short Duration Short Duration Long Duration |
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Customized | Custom strategies are available upon request. |
We offer portfolio management and trading platform capabilities to match the risk and return characteristics of index-based and customized indexes. Our quantitative tools allow us to access cost-efficient, transparent, liquid, and scalable exposure. In our customized solutions, we take pride in involving you in our disciplined, iterative process to align desired investment objectives within a rigorous risk-controlled framework.
V-Square focuses on consistent performance and, for passive investing, we seek to minimize the tracking-error by making skillful decisions (corporate actions, tax reclaims, transaction cost optimization, etc.) to achieve efficient outcomes.
Obtain beta exposure aligned with your ESG investment goals.
When it comes to ESG, we understand that there is no one-size-fit-all approach. We work to understand our clients’ ESG investment goals and, we subsequently optimize the portfolio to align with their ESG values, while maintaining an exposure to their desired beta within the risk tolerance set parameters.
Align and impact.
MoreResearch-informed proprietary strategies in collaboration with academia, data providers and asset owners
Recognizing the critical value of scientific research and risk, and policy analysis into our investment process, we joined the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global change and partnered with leading ESG data providers to enhance our investment decision making. We also collaborate with asset owners as they are the primary stakeholders.
We incorporate our proprietary ESG insights into our investment processes across a wide array of asset classes.
We leverage the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) materiality framework to measure a company’s business operations and governance relative to industry-specific ESG issues likely to affect a company’s financial performance; material issues vary across sectors and industries.
Delivered in rules-based factor investing strategies.
Factors available to combine with:
Beta or Smart Beta replication
Although without necessarily having any ESG factor intentionally incorporated in those investment processes, we offer our portfolio management and trading platform capabilities to manage your desired strategies.
Impactful voting
Via our curated proxy-voting policy that focuses on ESG issues that we have identified as being critical for companies’ long-term value.
Active ownership
We partnered with Arkadiko Partners, a renowned sustainability and strategic consulting firm, to design an active ownership program targeting a set of issues covering materiality, climate change, human capital & technology and governance
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