ID Term Defintition
1 A bottom-up investing approach is assessing the fundamentals (e.g. revenue or earnings) at on a company or investment sector basis, rather than the industry or overall economy. The bottom-up investing approach assumes individual companies can perform well even in an industry that is underperforming, and aims to identify opportunities through the characteristics of a company’s features and its valuations in comparison to the market.
2 A long-term change that affects governments, societies and economies permanently over a long period of time. A megatrend drives other trends in financial markets in terms of sales, growth and innovation.
3 Profit producing.
4 Active management/manager
5 Benchmark agnostic
6 Bottom-up
7 Cash generative
8 Megatrend
9 Direct greenhouse gas emissions that occur from sources that are controlled or owned by an organisation.
10 Scope 1 emissions
11 Indirect greenhouse gas emissions associated with the purchase of electricity, steam, heat, or cooling.
12 The manager regularly assesses buy/hold/sell decisions.
13 Total return, when measuring performance, is the actual rate of return of an investment or a pool of investments over a given evaluation period. Total return includes interest, capital gains, dividends, and distributions realised over a period. Total return accounts for two categories of return: income including interest paid by fixed income investments, distributions, or dividends and capital appreciation, representing the change in the market price of an asset.
14 UEM does not judge performance of the fund against a benchmark (e.g., the MSCI Index).
15 Scope 2 emissions
16 Total return