Benefits of investing in the OnePath Sustainable Investments Wholesale Australian Share Trust

The Trust, which is part of the OnePath Wholesale range of trusts, offers you a range of benefits and features including:

Potential for capital growth and income to help you meet your investment needs.

Investor flexibility as the Trust is open to both direct investors and indirect investors who wish to invest in the Trust via a master trust or a wrap service.

In addition, if you are a direct investor, the Trust offers the following benefits and features:

Online education through online material providing information on performance history, asset allocations, unit prices, market commentaries and updates as well as access to the necessary brochures and forms.

Ability to keep track of investments through:

• `Account Access', our secure and easy to use online service available at onepath.com.au, which allows you to view account balances, recent transactions and transaction statements and update your personal details

• regular transaction statements detailing your applications, withdrawals, opening and closing balances (including unit prices)

• personalised annual taxation statements, providing all the relevant information required to complete your tax return including details of withdrawals

• for the latest available information on the Trust, you can contact Customer Services, visit our website at onepath.com.au, speak to your financial adviser or email us at wholesale.unittrust@onepath.com.au. 

If you are an indirect investor, you should contact your financial adviser or Service Operator.

The Trust is suitable for investors seeking higher long-term returns within a socially responsible investment framework through investing in the Australian equity market.

About the Fund

The Trust seeks to invest in sustainable companies that have the capacity to make a positive impact on society in areas of economic, environmental and social development.

Specifically, the fund will target companies which contribute toward the advancement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda, have strong ESG characteristics and display appealing investment characteristics.

The Trust aims to achieve returns (after costs but before fees and taxes) that exceed the S&P/ASX 300 Accumulation Index, over periods of three to five years or more.

The investment process

Alphinity's investment process seeks to identify sustainable companies that contribute towards the advancement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG), have strong Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) characteristics and display appealing investment characteristics.

Alphinity employs negative screens* to exclude companies exposed to a relatively small number of specific activities and positive screens* to identify companies that contribute towards the advancement of the UNSDG agenda and rank well on ESG metrics.

*Negative and positive screens - to screen' a portfolio is to apply selection criteria in order to determine whether a company is suitable for investment.

Derivatives

The Trust may invest in derivatives, including futures, options, warrants and swaps to gain exposure to investment markets and to manage risks associated with market price, interest rate and currency fluctuations. 

Labour standards and environmental, social and ethical (ESG) considerations

We undertake a formal assessment of each underlying investment manager’s approach to the integration of ESG matters when assessing, selecting and monitoring investment manager(s) and actively encourage these managers to employ and enhance, where appropriate, their ESG integration practices.

Changing investments

We may change the Trust’s investments, objectives, strategies, the investment manager(s), asset allocation(s) and ranges (including by adding or removing asset classes) at any time without giving prior notice. We will notify you (or your Service Operator if you are an indirect investor) of any changes we consider to be material in accordance with our continuous disclosure obligations

How we invest your money

The Trust invests in a diversified mix of Australian shares. In order to gain exposure to the investment markets, the Trust may invest directly or indirectly via other unlisted trusts.

Asset allocation

(Asset: Benchmark / Range)

• Australian shares: 100% / 95-100%

• Cash: 0% / 0-5%