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Sustainable Investing

Find out more about environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) investing.

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Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG)

ESG is a recognised way of measuring the sustainability of companies from not just one ethical perspective, but three – environmental, social and governance. As well as calculating the level of sustainability today, ESG scoring can also help work out how big a part environmental, social and governance principles will play in a company’s long-term performance. 

Following this strategy helps build a better world, reduces damage to the environment and society, and creates wonderful opportunities. These are examples of some of the issues that are considered when we make investment recommendations to you:
Category
Issues considered
Environmental

How companies are making an impact on the environment:

  • Climate change impact
  • Air & water pollution
  • Waste management
  • Energy efficiency
  • Water scarcity 
Social

How companies engage with and impact on their employees, clients and communities:

  • Human rights 
  • Consumer privacy 
  • Gender equality 
  • Data security 
  • Health & safety 
Governance

How companies are governed or managed:

  • Board structure 
  • Company ownership 
  • Financial reporting 
  • Business ethics & culture 
  • Executive remuneration
Following this strategy helps build a better world, reduces damage to the environment and society, and creates wonderful opportunities. These are examples of some of the issues that are considered when we make investment recommendations to you:
Category
Environmental
Issues considered

How companies are making an impact on the environment:

  • Climate change impact
  • Air & water pollution
  • Waste management
  • Energy efficiency
  • Water scarcity 
Category
Social
Issues considered

How companies engage with and impact on their employees, clients and communities:

  • Human rights 
  • Consumer privacy 
  • Gender equality 
  • Data security 
  • Health & safety 
Category
Governance
Issues considered

How companies are governed or managed:

  • Board structure 
  • Company ownership 
  • Financial reporting 
  • Business ethics & culture 
  • Executive remuneration

Sustainable investing

Supporting sustainable investment opportunities is at the core of HSBC's global approach. We offer a range of products to help our customers to make sustainable choices without compromising their financial goals.

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“ESG and sustainable investing” products include investment approaches or instruments which consider environmental, social, governance (ESG) and/or other sustainability factors to varying degrees. Certain instruments we classify as sustainable may be in the process of changing to deliver sustainability outcomes.

There's no guarantee that ESG and sustainable investing products will produce returns similar to those which don’t consider these factors. ESG and sustainable investing products may diverge from traditional market benchmarks.

In addition, there's no standard definition of, or measurement criteria for, ESG and sustainable investing or the impact of ESG and sustainable investing products. ESG and sustainable investing and related impact measurement criteria are (a) highly subjective and (b) may vary significantly across and within sectors.

HSBC may rely on measurement criteria devised and reported by third party providers or issuers. HSBC doesn't always conduct its own specific due diligence in relation to measurement criteria. There's no guarantee: (a) that the nature of the ESG / sustainability impact or measurement criteria of an investment will be aligned with any particular investor’s sustainability goals; or (b) that the stated level or target level of ESG / sustainability impact will be achieved.

ESG and sustainable investing is an evolving area and new regulations are being developed which will affect how investments can be categorized or labelled. An investment which is considered to fulfill sustainable criteria today may not meet those criteria at some point in the future.

When we classify an investment product or service against our ESG and Sustainable Investing (SI) categories described in this document: ESG Aligned, ESG Enhanced, Thematic or Impact, this doesn't mean that all individual underlying holdings in the investment product or portfolio will meet the relevant SI criteria. As such, an SI classification doesn't mean that all underlying holdings in a fund or discretionary portfolio meet the relevant sustainable investment criteria. Similarly, where an equity or fixed income investment is classified under an ESG Enhanced, Thematic or Impact category this doesn't mean that the underlying issuer’s activities are fully sustainable. Not all investments, portfolios or services are classifiable under our SI categories. This may be because there is insufficient information available or because a particular investment product does not meet HSBC’s SI classifications criteria.

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