Vision Investing: Investing with Impact

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Investing with impact is investing with the goal of generating an identifiable and measurable positive change. Rather than simply avoiding investments that may do harm, investing with impact aims to actively channel assets towards doing good.

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This can mean direct investments that work to accomplish objectives important to you, such as, sustainable manufacturing of products or micro lending for low-income housing. It can also mean active ownership. Recently, investor groups have been banding together to inspire a variety of changes to corporate culture, from requiring companies to disclose CO2 data, to promoting clean energy projects at traditional fossil fuel companies. Today, most active ownership efforts focus on the environment and climate-related issues; and various social issues, such as, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Managers can amplify investor interests and concerns through corporate engagement, shareholder resolutions, and proxy voting.

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These engagement efforts can focus on a broad array of topics, often identified in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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This type of constructive dialogue has the potential to, not only, improve a company’s long-term financial performance, but also bring attention to issues that benefit society and the environment. There are a wide range of investment strategies that can help you invest with impact. Wells Fargo’s Vision Investing can help you tailor your investments to generate the positive change you want to see. To learn more about Vision Investing and implementing an investment solution contact your Wells Fargo financial professional.

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All investing involves some degree of risk, whether it is associated with market volatility, purchasing power or a specific security. There is no assurance any investment strategy will be successful. Asset allocation does not guarantee a profit nor does diversification protect against loss.

An investment’s social policy could cause it to forgo opportunities to gain exposure to certain industries, companies, sectors or regions of the economy which could cause it to underperform similar portfolios that do not have a social policy. There is no guarantee that any investment strategy will be successful. Risks associated with investing in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)-related strategies can also include a lack of consistency in approach and a lack of transparency in manager methodologies.

Some ESG investments may be dependent on government tax incentives and subsidies and on political support for certain environmental technologies and companies. There may also be challenges such as a limited number of issuers and the lack of a robust secondary market. There are many factors to consider when choosing an investment portfolio and ESG data is only one of those components. Investors should not place undue reliance on ESG principles when selecting an investment.

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