M&G Investments has launched an impact equity strategy which will seek to deliver attractive returns by investing in companies whose products or services are designed to promote better health and wellbeing.
The M&G Better Health Solutions fund will be a concentrated portfolio of 30-35 holdings (32 at launch), managed by Jasveet Brar. The stocks will be diversified around better healthcare and better wellbeing, with the latter theme covering improvements in lifestyle, hygiene and safety. M&G will publish annual reports on each company's impact on the two themes and their revenue alignment with health-related UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The fund follows the same investment approach and process as M&G's £480m Positive Impact strategy, managed by John William Olsen, who will ...
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