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With the climate challenge becoming ever more urgent, investors are increasingly looking to include climate investing solutions in their portfolios. The decarbonisation of portfolios is one of the most important objectives for climate investing.
Climate Transition Benchmark (CTB) ETFs or Paris Aligned Benchmark (PAB) ETFs can be an efficient way to achieve portfolio decarbonisation targets.
The JPM Carbon Transition Global Equity (CTB) UCITS ETF (JPCT) has been developed in line with the Paris Agreement and is designed to help investors manage the risks of climate change, capture the opportunities and contribute to solutions.
A framework for investing in the carbon transition
JPCT uses a proprietary research framework that aims to determine how well companies are prepared for the carbon transition by evaluating companies across three key pillars:
Managing emissions: Looking at companies’ production of direct (Scope 1) site emissions and indirect (Scope 3) consumer emissions and opportunities, as well as how they plan to manage and reduce emissions.
Resource management: How companies manage resources, including electricity (indirect “Scope 2” emissions from electricity usage), water and waste.
Managing climate-related risks: Both physical e.g. how well a company is positioned to withstand physical risks as a result of climate change; and reputational e.g. how well it incorporates sustainability considerations into its business.
Analysis of company performance against these three pillars forms the basis of our carbon transition investment framework.
The aim is to provide a comprehensive view of the carbon transition across global sectors and regions that takes into account upside as well as downside risks.
Souce: JPMAM
Using alternative data to broaden the opportunity set
Traditional sources of corporate information, such as company reports and analysis from third-party data providers, are useful in analysing whether companies are managing their businesses sustainably. However, this data can be inconsistent.
To address this issue, we rely on our expertise in artificial intelligence and big data, and a proprietary machine-learning tool, ThemeBot.
This tool uses natural language processing to screen more than 10,000 stocks globally, and rapidly analyses hundreds of millions of data sources – such as news articles, company reports, earnings transcripts and broker research – to identify stocks with the highest exposure to a theme.
JPM Carbon Transition Global Equity (CTB) UCITS ETF*
Our research framework is used to construct the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Carbon Transition Global Equity index, a proprietary benchmark that is designed to align with the European Union’s Climate Transition Benchmark standards.
The index leans into companies that are best prepared, and away from companies that are most exposed, to carbon transition.
By closely tracking our carbon transition index, JPCT* aims to provide a core global equity exposure, without taking regional and sector bets, and maintains a low tracking error to the MSCI World.
Our approach ensures at least a 30% reduction in carbon intensity relative to the MSCI World and a 7% year-on-year rate of decarbonisation. JPCT* launched in November 2020 and has assets under management of over $1.2bn.
This article first appeared in ETF Insider, ETF Stream's monthly ETF magazine for professional investors in Europe. To read the full edition, click here.
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