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S&P Dow Jones Indices
Spotlight on the S&P 500 ESG Index
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The Evolution of ESG – from the Margins to the Mainstream
MYTH BUSTING
1) ESG Investing ≠ Ethical Investing
o SRI: values-based investing.
vs.
o ESG: process for incorporating financially-material information (sometimes in alignment with ones
values).
2) ESG does not mean sacrificing returns
o Resource efficient companies tend to be more efficient in general.
o Broad market exposure now possible with market (if not better) returns.
2Material Insights driven through Real-life Investment Performance
1 Cash and Capital
Management Product Quality and
Safety
Human Capital Innovation Management
0.9 Management
Market Access Strategy
Likelihood of impact
Corporate Governance
0.8
Strategy to Improve Business Ethics
Access to Healthcare
Quality of Earnings
0.7 Supply Chain
Environmental
Management & Product Management
Stewardship
0.6
Customer Relationship
Management
0.5
0.4
1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4
Magnitude of impact Source: SAM, part of S&P Global
3Not All Issues Matter to All Industries
Mining & Minerals Restaurants Pharmaceuticals
E E
E G
G
G
S
S
S
• Payment transparency •Brand management •Innovation mgmt.
•Customer relationship •Product quality and recall
Management mgmt.
• Mineral waste mgmt. •Raw material sourcing •Climate strategy
• Water related risks
• Biodiversity
• Asset closure mgmt. •Local impact of business •Address cost burden
• Community impact operations •Access to drugs
• Stakeholder engagement •Health outcome
contributions
Source: SAM, part of S&P Global
4Introducing the S&P 500® ESG Index: Methodology
100%
1) Exclude:
Sort by
• Tobacco 90%
S&P
• Controversial weapons 80% DJI
ESG
• Low UNGC scores 70% Score
Target
• Bottom 25% of S&P DJI ESG scoring companies within each global GICS Industry 75%
60%
Group by Eligible
market
50%
2) Sort & Select: cap
• Sort eligible companies by S&P DJI ESG Score within each GICS Industry 40%
Group 30%
• Select top performing companies, targeting 75% within each GICS Industry
20%
Group
3) Weight:
10%
• Weight companies by float-adjusted market cap Ineligible
0%
Industry group
For illustrative purposes only
5The S&P 500 ESG Index: Exclusions based upon ESG Principles
Controversial Tobacco Low UNGC MSA Not Covered
Weapons Score Cases by Input
data
Honeywell Intl Philip Morris Johnson &
Netflix Inc. Dow Inc.
Inc. International Johnson
Charter
Lockheed Martin Altria Group 3M Co. Amcor plc Tobacco
Communications Controversial Weapons
0.78%
Raytheon DuPont de 1.97% Low UNGC Score
Technologies Crown Castle Intl. Nemours 1.59%
Corp. Inc.
SBA
Boeing Co.
Communications Bottom 25% of
Northrop Global GICS
Twitter Inc.
Grumman Corp. Industry Group
General S&P 500 ESG Index ESG Scores
Dynamics Constituents Non-Constituents 3.91%
Jacobs 76.56% 23.44% Eligible, but Not
Engineering Selected
Group Inc. 12.87% Controversy
2.14%
Huntington
Ingalls Industries
Inc. No ESG Score
Coverage
Textron Inc.
0.17%
Data as of last rebalance on April 30th, 2020.
Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices, LLC. Table & Chart Provided for Illustrative Purposes Only. 6The S&P 500 ESG Index: Summary Characteristics
The S&P 500 ESG Index launched on January 28th, 2019
On April 30th, 2020, there were 311 constituents in the S&P 500 ESG
S&P 500® Index
Index ESG Index
Number of Constituents 505 311
Weight of Largest Constituent 5.66% 7.39%
Weight of Top 10 Constituents 26.05% 33.00%
Index ESG Score Improvement -- 21.17%
Carbon-to-Revenue Footprint 220.35 208.88
The Index ESG Scores are calculated using index data as of April 30th, 2020. The ‘Index ESG Score Improvement’ is calculated as the percentage difference between the Index ESG scores of the S&P 500 ESG
Index and the S&P 500, relative to the index’s maximum potential improvement, based on only investing in the single highest ranked ESG scoring company.
The index’s ‘Carbon to Revenue’ footprint is measured using index data as of April 30th, 2020. For further information on these methodologies, see Index ESG Characteristics Explained. Access via:
https://eu.spindices.com/documents/additional-material/spdji-esg-metrics.pdf
Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC. Charts and graphs are provided for illustrative purposes. Past performance is not an indication or guarantee of future results. These charts and graphs may reflect 7
hypothetical historical performance. Please see the Performance Disclosure at the end of this document for more information regarding the inherent limitations associated with back-tested performance.The S&P 500 ESG Index: Measuring the Impacts
Governance
Environmental
Social
+9% +8%
exposure to companies actively exposure to companies that perform
+8% monitoring diversity-related issues and disclose ESG materiality analysis
exposure to companies that analyze
their sources of Scope 3 emissions +7% + 7%
female representation in all exposure to companies with a
+10% management positions including diversity policy regarding board
junior, middle, and senior nominations
third-party verified emission data
management
+9% + 9%
exposure to companies with GHG + 7% exposure to companies with a public
emission reduction targets more exposure to companies Supplier Code of Conduct that covers
assessing human rights issues across working conditions
their business
Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC. These are just a few examples of the numerous ways in which the S&P 500 ESG Index offers enhanced ESG representation. Increased index
exposure to each ESG theme in the metrics above are calculated using the question-level data in SAM’s Corporate Sustainability Assessments (2019 methodology year). These metrics
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are calculated using index data as of May 1, 2020 as the percentage difference between the performance of the S&P 500 ESG Index and the S&P 500 constituents across these metric,
on a weighted average basis.The S&P 500 ESG Index: Sustainable Performance with Benchmark-like Returns
S&P 500® S&P 500 ESG
10 Year Annualized Returns (Total
13.99 14.28
Return, %)
10 Year Standard Deviation (%) 13.42 13.13
10-Year Historical 10 Year Tracking Error (%) - 0.96
Performance Index ESG Score Improvement (%) - 21.17
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Dec-14 Jun-15 ESG Index
Dec-15 Jun-16(TR)
Dec-16 Jun-17 Dec-17 Jun-18 Dec-18 Jun-19 Dec-19 Jun-2
Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC. Performance data from June 30th, 2010, to June 30th, 2020. Data for graph from June 30th, 2010, to June 30th, 2020. Index performance based on daily total returns, USD
unless stated otherwise. Charts and graphs are provided for illustrative purposes. Past performance is not an indication or guarantee of future results. These charts and graphs may reflect hypothetical historical
performance. Please see the Performance Disclosure at the end of this document for more information regarding the inherent limitations associated with back-tested performance.
9The S&P 500 ESG Index: Sustainable Performance with Benchmark-like Returns
S&P 500
S&P 500® ESG
1 Year Total Returns (June 28, 2019 – June 30,
7.51 10.77
2020, %)
1-Year Performance (Live) 1 Year Standard Deviation (%) 21.88 21.43
130 1 Year Tracking Error (%) - 1.27
Index ESG Score Improvement (%) - 21.17
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28-Jun-19 28-Jul-19 28-Aug-19 28-Sep-19 28-Oct-19 28-Nov-19 28-Dec-19 28-Jan-20 28-Feb-20 28-Mar-20 28-Apr-20 28-May-20 28-Jun-20
S&P 500 (TR) S&P 500 ESG Index (TR)
Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC. Performance data from June 28th, 2019, to June 30th, 2020. Data for graph from June 28th, 2019, to June 30th, 2020. Index performance based on daily total returns, USD unless stated otherwise.
Charts and graphs are provided for illustrative purposes. Past performance is not an indication or guarantee of future results. These charts and graphs may reflect hypothetical historical performance. Please see the Performance
Disclosure at the end of this document for more information regarding the inherent limitations associated with back-tested performance.
10The S&P 500 ESG Index: 1 Year Performance Attribution - Selection Effect
S&P 500 ESG vs. S&P 500: Mar 31, 2019 - Mar 31, 2020
Materials
Real Estate
Utilities
Energy
Consumer Staples
Industrials
Communication Services
Consumer Discretionary
Financials
Health Care
Information Technology
-0.20% 0.00% 0.20% 0.40% 0.60% 0.80% 1.00%
Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC; FactSet (Portfolio Analysis Tool for Performance Attribution Analysis). Performance data from March 31st, 2019, to March 31st, 2020. Data for graph from
March 31st, 2019, to March 31st, 2020. Index performance based on daily total returns, USD. Charts and graphs are provided for illustrative purposes. Past performance is not an indication or
guarantee of future results. These charts and graphs may reflect hypothetical historical performance. Please see the Performance Disclosure at the end of this document for more information
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regarding the inherent limitations associated with back-tested performance.The S&P 500 ESG Index: 2020 Rebalance Highlights
Biggest Additions and Drops to the S&P 500 ESG Index from the 2020 Annual Rebalance
TOP 10 BIGGEST ADDITIONS TOP 10 BIGGEST DROPS
Facebook* Walmart
Thermo Fisher Scientific* Raytheon Technologies Corp.
Costco Wholesale Corp.* Charter Communications Inc.
Eli Lilly & Co.* Crown Castle International Corp.
Wells Fargo* US Bancorp
American Tower Corp.* Kimberly-Clark
Advanced Micro Devices Applied Materials
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals* Ross Stores Inc.
Verisk Analytics Phillips 66
American Water Works Consolidated Edison Inc.
(*) These companies were re-added after previously being dropped from the index in the 2019 rebalance. For Facebook, an S&P DJI ESG Score improvement (largely driven by improvements in its
Governance score) and an industry reclassification improved its S&P DJI ESG Score performance relative to its industry peers. The S&P DJI ESG Scores for Thermo Fisher Scientific and Regeneron
Pharmaceuticals also increased. However, the S&P DJI ESG Scores for Costco Wholesale Corp, Eli Lilly & Co, Wells Fargo, and American Tower Corp actually fell, suggesting their rankings within their
respective index industry groups improved as the scores of their peers perhaps fell
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by more.
Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC. Data as of April 30, 2020. Table is provided for illustrative purposes.S&P DJI ESG Scores: A Financially Material Lens on ESG
1. Cultivated over 20 years of investment experience by RobecoSAM
2. Data collection goes beyond public disclosure
3. Built upon an extremely granular set of data points
4. Industry-specific, accounting for the most financially material issues
13The Highest Quality Data According to Industry Experts
ESG Ratings Quality - Bars represent number of respondents who listed each rating provider (unprompted)
Source: Rate The Raters Survey 2019 (respondents included 319 sustainability professionals, with approx. 70% with > 10 years experience)
14Performance Disclosure
The S&P 500 ESG Index launched January 28th, 2019. All information presented prior to an index’s Launch Date is hypothetical (back-tested), not actual performance. The back-test calculations are based
on the same methodology that was in effect on the index Launch Date. Complete index methodology details are available at www.spdji.com.
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index Launch Date. Complete index methodology details are available at www.spdji.com.
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