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    BMO SDG Engagement Global Equity Copy

    In Short

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    Strategy description

    The objective of the Fund is to achieve long term capital growth and support sustainable development. The Fund invests in companies identified through reference to the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which address issues including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, prosperity, peace and justice.

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    Exclusions

    International Norms: companies whose activities clearly infringe international agreements and which are complicit in human rights abuses (following the UN guiding principles and OECD guidelines).

    Fossil fuel / Thermal coal: companies that derive over 10% of their revenues from the extraction of thermal coal, oil and gas companies whose production derived from oil sands is 1% or more of total production and extractives companies undertaking exploration and production activities in sensitive areas.

    All Weapons including Anti-personnel mines, Cluster munitions, Nuclear, Biological & Chemical Weapons

    Tobacco: companies that derive any turnover from the manufacture of tobacco products or derive 10% or more of turnover from the sale of tobacco products.

    Gambling: companies whose core business is gambling, such as casinos or derive 10% or more of their total revenues from gambling, such as hotels or restaurants.

    Pornography: companies involved in the production or distribution of pornographic materials or retailers that derive more than 3% of turnover from the sale of such material.

    Alcohol: companies that derive any turnover from the production of alcoholic beverages, that derive over 33% of turnover from selling alcohol or derive over 10% from bottling, wholesale or sale.