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1 DIGGING DEEPER:EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AN IN DEPTH EXAMINATION OF THEE GLOBAL CLIMATE 500 INDEX SEP 2015/

2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REPORT WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY: JULIAN POULTER, LEANNE BOUVET CPA, OLIVER WAGG AND JOSHUA SHEPPARD THE ASSET OWNERS DISCLOSURE PROJECT GIVES SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE IN PRODUCING THIS REPORT: VICTORIA BRYANT, LUKE FAY, ROBERT SCHWARZ, HUGUES LETOURNEAU, MARK MCCAW, PAVEL KIRJANAS, SERENA RITCHIE, MARCUS MORLEY, ELLIOT LAVERS, GINA SAHOTA, OLIVIER CASSARO, TRACY NGUYEN, NOZUKO MKETO, DANIEL GOCHER, AADESH GOSRANI, ANDREA BARBERIS, RACHEL MADEIROS-MHENDE THE ONGOING SUPPORT OF AODP S FUNDERS IS ACKNOWLEDGED. A FULL LIST CAN BE FOUND ON OUR WEBSITE. THE VIEWS IN THIS REPORT REMAIN THOSE OF AODP.

3 DIGGING DEEPER PREFACE This report digs deeper into the performance of the leaders across the five ratings criteria, following the April 2015 AODP Global Climate 500 Index. It reveals the highest ranked asset owners across these criteria, sectors and regions as well as the largest laggards by fund size. Our insights provide a fuller picture of the areas in which asset owners are the most proactive, as well as the variety of tools and strategies used to improve climate risk management. This level of detail provides the funds with a better understanding of their relative strengths and weaknesses in each area compared to peers, allowing them to create plans and strategies to catch up or move further forward. There are numerous options that can be taken by asset owners to raise their game regardless of current rankings ahead of the 2016 AODP Global Climate 500, which will be launched late September The 2015 AODP 500 was compiled by assessing the world s largest 500 asset owners including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, foundations and endowments. Funds are rated from AAA through to D grade, with an extra X category being added for those funds at the bottom that appear to be doing absolutely nothing to manage climate risk.

4 CONTENTS PREFACE ABOUT AODP 02/ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 03/ INSIGHTS AND ANALYSIS 05/ CRITERIA 14 DATA 21 APPENDIX 36 NOTES 41

5 KNOWN UNKNOWN ABOUT AODP The AODP is an independent global not-for-profit organisation that recognises the specific financial risk attributes of climate change. While rigorously challenging the asset owners we rate, AODP s ultimate goal is to press for improved accountability to beneficiaries and support investors to become climate risk mitigation leaders. We want to change the short-term investment behaviour of the world s largest insurance companies, pension, sovereign wealth and mutual funds. We want to drive them to manage the long-term risks of climate change through active engagement with fossil fuel and other high-carbon companies and redirect their vast capital towards lower carbon investments. The AODP has proven that pressure to disclose encourages change in the behaviour of large investors who know that many of their practices are focused on the short term. We drive accountability by challenging reputations through rating the funds and outing hypocrisy, but ultimately being collaborative. Leaders are encouraged to go further, average asset owners are driven to become leaders and life becomes uncomfortable for laggard funds that do not wish to embrace the inevitable transition to a low-carbon economy. The AODP has a board of senior leaders with investment, risk-management, business, trade union, political, academic and environmental backgrounds, including John Hewson, Bob Litterman, Sharon Burrow and John Connor. 02

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7 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ASSET OWNERS FIND MANY WAYS TO INNOVATE IN PUSH TO DECARBONISE PORTFOLIOS The investment world is still a long way from the transparency and risk management practices that are required to avoid a carbon crash. Our leaders have their particular strengths, employing a variety of methods, emphasising that there are a number of ways to approach the management of climate risk. Although our leaders are moving at a swifter pace than their peers, there is room for improvement within some of the categories in even the highest rated asset owners. We have no data on $13.3 trillion managed by the laggard funds, with these asset owners so opaque that basic policies for company governance were not publicly available. Even where some of these documents were available, there is a lack of transparency regarding decarbonisation targets, the filing and supporting of shareholder resolutions, and engagement efforts with companies. To fund the transition to a low-carbon economy, an estimated $10 trillion or 15 percent of total capital owned by long-term institutional investors needs to be invested in low-carbon assets. There are standout funds showing leadership in this area: the average for asset owners providing low-carbon investment data is 3.3 percent of portfolio assets under management. However 457 asset owners lack any information on low-carbon investment within their portfolios. The 10 largest laggards alone invest five times more than the 9 AAA-rated funds. Only $3.7 trillion is under the management of funds rated A or higher, just 11 percent of total index AUM. If just a few of these laggards took positive action on climate change risk and invested more in low-carbon initiatives, the impact they would have would be significant. Finally, in what may be the key to understanding asset owners poor performance, few incentivise their internal and external agents to manage climate change risk. This is particularly concerning in the pension fund industry, where the liability time horizon is decades into the future. It is little wonder that the vast majority of asset owners are failing to manage this systemic risk given that their management is not directly incentivised to do so. 04

8 INSIGHTS AND ANALYSIS LEADERS PERFORMANCE ACROSS THE FIVE CRITERIA TABLE 01 / THE LEADERS: HIGHEST RANKED FOR OVERALL LONG TERM CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT PRACTICES 2015 RATING 2015 OVERALL RANKING ASSET OWNER NAME AAA 1 Local Government Super AAA 2 Kommunal Landspensjonskasse KLP AAA 3 CalPERS AAA 4 ABP AAA 5 Environment Agency Pension Fund AAA 6 New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF) AAA 7 AustralianSuper AAA 8 Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW) AAA 9 Fjärde AP-Fonden (AP4) AA 10 General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of the United Methodist Church AA 11 Andra AP-Fonden (AP2) AA 12 Aviva plc - Insurance AA 13 First State Super AA 14 California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) AA 15 VicSuper AA 16 Universities Superannuation Scheme A 17 CareSuper A 18 PKA A/S A 19 New York City Employees Retirement System (NYCERS) A 20 Teachers' Retirement System of the City of New York (TRS) A 21 United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund A 22 Government Pension Fund - Global (GPFG Norway) A 23 ERAFP (Etablissement de retraite additionnelle de la Fonction Publique) A 24 Allianz SE

9 TRANSPARENCY RISK MANAGEMENT LOW CARBON INVESTMENT ACTIVE OWNERSHIP INVESTMENT CHAIN ALIGNMENT

10 INSIGHTS AND ANALYSIS LEADERS PERFORMANCE ACROSS THE FIVE CRITERIA The leaders rated A and above cover 11 percent of total index AUM, at $3.7 trillion. The ten largest leaders manage $3.2 trillion. All AODP 500 leaders have their strengths, performing well across multiple criteria, especially in risk management. However only three perform consistently in the top ten across all five categories Australia s Local Government Super, The Netherland s KLP and US s CalPERS, with the UK s Environment Agency Pension fund very close.

11 FIGURE 01 / 2015 AODP GLOBAL CLIMATE 500 INDEX AAA-RATED LEADERS CATEGORY PERFORMANCE RANK TRANSPARENCY RANK RISK MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT CHAIN ALIGNMENT LOW CARBON INVESTMENT ACTIVE OWNERSHIP Local Government Super Kommunal Landspensjonskasse KLP CalPERS ABP Environment Agency Pension Fund New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF) AustralianSuper Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW) Fjärde AP-Fonden (APF) 08

12 INSIGHTS AND ANALYSIS CRITERIA LEADERBOARDS TABLE 02 / 2015 AODP GLOBAL CLIMATE 500 CRITERIA LEADERBOARDS RANK TRANSPARENCY RISK MANAGEMENT /01/ /02/ /03/ /04/ /05/ /06/ /07/ /08/ /09/ /10/ Local Government Super CalPERS AustralianSuper Aviva plc - Insurance (AA) Kommunal Landspensjonskasse KLP CareSuper (A) General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of the United Methodist Church (AA) First State Super (AA) VicSuper (AA) Environment Agency Pension Fund Local Government Super ABP Fjärde AP-Fonden (AP4) Kommunal Landspensjonskasse KLP Environment Agency Pension Fund Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW) Andra AP-Fonden (AP2) (AA) AustralianSuper CalPERS First State Super (AA)

13 LOW-CARBON INVESTMENT ACTIVE OWNERSHIP INVESTMENT CHAIN ALIGNMENT Local Government Super PKA A/S (A) Environment Agency Pension Fund Kommunal Landspensjonskasse KLP Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW) VicSuper (AA) New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF) Government Pension Fund - Global (GPFG Norway) (A) ABP CalPERS New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF) CalPERS New York City Employees Retirement System (NYCERS) (A) Teachers' Retirement System of the City of New York (TRS) (A) ABP AAA) Aviva plc - Insurance (AA) General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of the United Methodist Church (AA) Kommunal Landspensjonskasse KLP Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW) Local Government Super Local Government Super AustralianSuper General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of the United Methodist Church (AA) CalPERS Allianz SE (A) Environment Agency Pension Fund BT Financial Group (BBB) Kommunal Landspensjonskasse KLP Andra AP-Fonden (AP2) (AA) First State Super (AA) 10

14 INSIGHTS AND ANALYSIS CRITERIA SCORE ASSET OWNER RANKING CRITERIA SCORES TRANSPARENCY RISK MANAGEMENT

15 FIGURE 02 / A LARGE GAP BETWEEN LEADERS AND LAGGARDS ACROSS ALL RATINGS CRITERIA 100 LOW CARBON INVESTMENT ACTIVE OWNERSHIP INVESTMENT CHAIN ALIGNMENT 12

16 AODP GLOBAL CLIMATE CRITERIA

17 CRITERIA 01 / TRANSPARENCY TABLE 03 / PROXY VOTING TRANSPARENCY 2015 RATING GROUP PROXY VOTING RECORD PUB- LICLY AVAILABLE % OF ASSET OWNERS NUMBER IN RATING GROUP AAA 8 89% 9 AA 7 100% 7 A 3 38% 8 BBB 5 56% 9 BB 7 78% 9 B 2 25% 8 CCC 6 67% 9 CC 3 33% 9 C 2 22% 9 D 23 12% 191 X 0 0% 232 TOTAL 66 13% 500 Transparency illustrates how an asset owner is communicating with its members and how much information it is releasing publicly on their investment strategy and decision-making process. Seventy-five percent of the leadership group make their voting record publicly available, and this number gradually declines further down the ratings table. Specifically on climate change-related shareholder resolutions, 78 percent of our AAA rated leaders intend to support climate change-related resolutions in the current round of AGMs. 14

18 CRITERIA 02 / RISK MANAGEMENT FIGURE 03 / ASSET OWNERS ASSESSING STRANDED ASSET EXPOSURE FOR FOSSIL FUEL HOLDINGS Yes. We have examined the risks and are implementing investment strategies to reduce the risks. Yes. We have examined the risks and will mitigate our risk through our engagement / proxy voting strategy. Yes. We have examined the risks but do not intend to take action. LEADERS / A+ 10 OTHER / NUMBER OF ASSET OWNERS Risk management covers how asset owners manage climate change-related risks at the portfolio level and also how they drive fund managers to manage climate risk at the fund and company levels. This category is a clear differentiator between the leaders and laggards. More than half of the AAA-rated leaders calculate portfolio emissions, and 78 percent assess potential stranded assets in their fossil fuel holdings, and take clear action to mitigate these risks. This compares with just 7 percent and 4 percent respectively for all rated funds. The range of climate change-related portfolio risk mitigation actions used by funds shows there are many ways to approach this, with a large number of funds using bespoke methods.

19 FIGURE 04 / CLIMATE CHANGE RELATED PORTFOLIO RISK MITIGATION Fund manager mandate guidance An overlay on our core portfolio Underweighting of specific stocks exposed to carbon risk Underweighting of specific sectors exposed to carbon risk Use of carbon optimised equity indexes Divestment of certain sectors (eg Fossil Fuel Mining companies) Negative screens (or positive inclusion criteria) on all investments Negative screens (or positive inclusion criteria) on selected investment options Hedging allocation of low carbon assets to hedge against high carbon stranded assets Investment in adaptation assets Investment in green bonds Other NUMBER OF ASSET OWNERS 50 16

20 CRITERIA 03 / LOW-CARBON INVESTMENT FIGURE 05 / ASSET OWNERS LOW CARBON INVESTMENT (% OF TOTAL AUM) 50%-100% AAA AA A BBB BB B CCC CC C D 25%-50% 15%-25% 5%-15% 3%-5% 2%-3% 0%-2% NUMBER OF ASSET OWNERS The low-carbon investment criteria assess which funds are investing specifically in low-carbon assets and how. That is, whether or not asset owners are hedging their portfolio against climate change risk by allocating money to low-carbon investments that can expect to be revalued higher as progress towards a low-carbon economy accelerates. Low-carbon investments include investments in renewable energy, agri-business, water and energy efficiency-related assets as well as the service industries supplying to all these sectors. When it comes to investing in low-carbon assets, 13 percent of asset owners make a specific allocation for climate change-related investments as part of an overall hedging strategy. Again, the leaders pull away from the pack here, with 46 percent of those rated A and above use this tool to reduce the overall exposure to the impacts of climate risk. There is no evidence to suggest that the 457 funds without information on their portfolio low carbon investment do anything additional to invest in or measure their low-carbon investment beyond the benchmark level that would be held by passive investment. Of the 43 asset owners providing information on their low-carbon investment, the average proportion of their portfolios held in low-carbon assets is 3.3 percent of assets under management. / Two funds hold more than 25 percent in low-carbon investment: Kommunal Landspensjonskasse (KLP) (38.7 percent) and Environment Agency Pension Fund (24.4 percent).

21 04 / ACTIVE OWNERSHIP FIGURE 06 / ENGAGEMENT WITH POLICYMAKERS AND REGULATORS ON CLIMAGE CHANGE Yes, lobbying for climate policy through a collaborative industry group Yes, media articles or comments by executives Yes, speeches by an executive at industry conferences Yes, meetings with policy makers Yes, meetings with regulators Other NUMBER OF ASSET OWNERS 45 Active ownership measures how involved an asset owner is with companies it invests in. When an asset owner buys shares in any company it is able to influence the company itself. Asset owners have a duty to their members to ensure that their investee companies factor long-term climate change risks and other important long-term decisions into their strategy. If they fail to do so they are risking their members savings and retirement. Successful engagement with investee companies and industry is very low only 4 percent of asset owners have disclosed achievements obtained through actively engaging on climate change related issues. The AAArated funds stand out here with 67 percent citing notable achievements from engagement activities on issues such as stranded asset risk assessment and disclosure, carbon reduction targets and acknowledging the risks of climate change. While not all engagement leads to success, this proves that a fund can use its influence to effect positive change. / It appears that asset owners are engaging more with governments and policymakers rather than the companies that they own, and when they engage they prefer to do so collaboratively. Twelve percent of asset owners disclose activities in this area. Again our leaders show growing effectiveness in this type of activity raising awareness and generating discussion pushing for change at a higher level. 18

22 CRITERIA 05 / INVESTMENT CHAIN ALIGNMENT FIGURE 07 / NUMBER OF ASSET OWNERS USING LONG TERM INCENTIVES OR RISK PENALTIES TO REDUCE EXPOSURE TO CLIMATE CHANGE RISKS Fund Executives Fund / organisation trustees Investment / portfolio managers Asset consultant Other: portfolio managers, executive management, external fund / investment managers NUMBER OF ASSET OWNERS 9 Investment chain alignment means that the actions of asset owners, their advisors and fund managers are consistent with the best interests of the beneficiaries. Climate change is providing asset owners with a new challenge for driving change in their fund managers. One of the key barriers to this change has been incentive alignment - pension funds members typically have an investment horizon of 40 years whereas fund managers that invest on their behalf are rewarded for performance over a much shorter period of time. Asset owners that rate highly in this area are credited for taking responsibility for their assets and providing a superior service to their members. Providing long-term incentives or risk penalties to reduce portfolio climate risk exposure is a key tool for seven of nine of the AAA-rated leaders. In the full leadership group, 38 percent of funds use this to incentivise climate risk management performance through the investment chain. Again a large gap between leaders and laggards only 2.6 percent of the 500 apply this technique to managing climate risk.

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24 DATA THE TEN LARGEST LAGGARDS The ten largest laggard asset owners manage a total of $6.3 trillion or 18 percent of the total assets under management. This is nearly double the total AUM of the leaders and five times that of our top ten. Naturally all are rated X in the AODP index, the level at which AODP could find nothing at all about how they are managing climate risk. To put it simply, for every $1 invested by the top ten asset owners, there is $5 invested by the largest laggards.

25 TABLE 04 / AODP GLOBAL CLIMATE 500 TOP TEN LARGEST LAGGARDS (BY AUM) RANK ASSET OWNER NAME /01/ GOVERNMENT PENSION INVESTMENT FUND (JAPAN) REGION /02/ JAPAN POST INSURANCE /03/ ABU DHABI INVESTMENT AUTHORITY /04/ SAMA FOREIGN HOLDINGS /05/ SAFE INVESTMENT COMPANY /06/ KUWAIT INVESTMENT AUTHORITY /07/ ZENKYOREN /08/ THRIFT SAVINGS PLAN (TSP) /09/ HONG KONG MONETARY AUTHORITY INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO /10/ QATAR INVESTMENT AUTHORITY 22

26 DATA SECTOR LEADERBOARDS TABLE 05 / 2015 AODP GLOBAL CLIMATE 500 SECTOR LEADERS SECTOR TOTAL NUMBER RATED INDEX AUM USDM % OF INDEX AUM TOP 10 SECTOR AUM USDM % OF SECTOR AUM Pension ,461,825 47% 1,269, % Insurance 66 10,780,271 31% 4,476, % Sovereign Wealth Fund Foundation / Endowment 39 7,231,903 21% 1,353, % ,137 1% 293, % Total Index ,927, % 7,393, % The pension and insurance sectors combined represent close to 80 percent of the total index AUM. The pension funds sector is the clear leader in climate risk management performance, with all AAA rated asset owners coming from this sector and 6 percent of all pension funds appearing in the leadership group. Sovereign wealth funds and foundations & endowments lag as sectors, with only a handful of funds across these sectors achieving a rating above D. 72 percent of SWFs are X Rated.

27 NUMBER OF ASSET OWNERS BY RATING AAA AA A BBB BB B CCC CC C D X

28 DATA SECTOR LEADERBOARDS TABLE 06 / SECTOR LEADERS: PENSION FUNDS RANKING ASSET OWNER NAME OVERALL RANKING TRANSPARENCY RISK MANAGEMENT LOW CARBON INVESTMENT ACTIVE OWNERSHIP INVESTMENT CHAIN ALIGNMENT OVERALL RATING Local Government Super AAA 2 Kommunal Landspensjonskasse KLP AAA 3 CalPERS AAA 4 ABP AAA 5 Environment Agency Pension Fund AAA 6 New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF) AAA 7 AustralianSuper AAA 8 Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW) AAA 9 Fjärde AP-Fonden (AP4) AAA 10 General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of the United Methodist Church AA

29 TABLE 07 / SECTOR LEADERS: INSURERS RANKING ASSET OWNER NAME OVERALL RANKING TRANSPARENCY RISK MANAGEMENT LOW CARBON INVESTMENT ACTIVE OWNERSHIP INVESTMENT CHAIN ALIGNMENT OVERALL RATING Aviva plc - Insurance AA 2 Allianz SE A 3 AXA Group BB 4 Prudential Insurance B 5 Cathay Life Insurance B 6 Storebrand ASA Insurance B 7 Zurich Insurance Group CCC 8 Manulife Financial CC 9 PFA Pension C 10 Great-West Lifeco Inc D 06 26

30 DATA SECTOR LEADERBOARDS TABLE 08 / SECTOR LEADERS: SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS RANKING ASSET OWNER NAME OVERALL RANKING TRANSPARENCY RISK MANAGEMENT LOW CARBON INVESTMENT ACTIVE OWNERSHIP INVESTMENT CHAIN ALIGNMENT OVERALL RATING Government Pension Fund - Global (GPFG Norway) A 2 New Zealand Superannuation Fund CC 3 Caisse des Dépôts CC 4 Government Pension Fund Norway (GPFN) D 5 Future Fund D 6 Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) (previously National Pensions Reserve Fund) D 7 Retail Employees Superannuation Trust (REST) D 8 State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan D 9 Korea Investment Corporation D 10 New Mexico State Investment Council D

31 TABLE 09 / SECTOR LEADERS: FOUNDATIONS AND ENDOWMENTS RANKING ASSET OWNER NAME OVERALL RANKING TRANSPARENCY RISK MANAGEMENT LOW CARBON INVESTMENT ACTIVE OWNERSHIP INVESTMENT CHAIN ALIGNMENT OVERALL RATING University of California Endowment BBB 2 Yale University Endowment Fund CC 3 Stanford University Endowment Fund C 4 Harvard University Endowment Fund D 5 Columbia University Endowment Fund D 6 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation D 7 University of Texas Endowment Fund D 8 Ford Foundation D 9 Stichting INGKA Foundation D 10 Li Ka Shing Foundation D 28

32 DATA REGION LEADERBOARDS TABLE 10 / 2015 AODP GLOBAL CLIMATE 500 REGION LEADERS REGION TOTAL NUMBER RATED TOTAL REGIONAL AUM USDM TOP 10 REGIONAL AUM USDM AUM COVERAGE Europe ,697,335 2,157,649 20% Americas ,172,943 1,540,120 14% Asia-Pacific 88 10,277, ,979 2% Middle East & Africa 20 2,779, ,751 5% Total Disclosers ,927,135 4,096,499 12% Europe has the highest number of top performing asset owners. Eight percent of European-based funds achieved a rating of A or above, with the top ten representing 20 percent of total Regional AUM. 36% of asset owners are rated X. At the other end of the scale is Middle East and Africa. No asset owners in this region made it to the leaders category, and 80 percent are rated X.

33 NUMBER OF ASSET OWNERS BY RATING AAA AA A BBB BB B CCC CC C D X

34 DATA REGION LEADERBOARDS TABLE 11 / REGION LEADERS: EUROPE RANKING ASSET OWNER NAME OVERALL RANKING TRANSPARENCY RISK MANAGEMENT LOW CARBON INVESTMENT ACTIVE OWNERSHIP INVESTMENT CHAIN ALIGNMENT OVERALL RATING Kommunal Landspensjonskasse KLP AAA 2 ABP AAA 3 Environment Agency Pension Fund AAA 4 Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW) AAA 5 Fjärde AP-Fonden (AP4) AAA 6 Andra AP-Fonden (AP2) AA 7 Aviva plc - Insurance AA 8 Universities Superannuation Scheme AA 9 PKA A/S A 10 Government Pension Fund - Global (GPFG Norway) A

35 TABLE 12 / REGION LEADERS: AMERICAS RANKING ASSET OWNER NAME OVERALL RANKING TRANSPARENCY RISK MANAGEMENT LOW CARBON INVESTMENT ACTIVE OWNERSHIP INVESTMENT CHAIN ALIGNMENT OVERALL RATING CalPERS AAA 2 New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF) AAA 3 General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of the United Methodist Church AA 4 California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) AA 5 New York City Employees Retirement System (NYCERS) A 6 Teachers' Retirement System of the City of New York (TRS) A 7 United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund A 8 University of California Endowment BBB 9 Municipal Pension Plan BBB 10 TIAA-CREF - Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America - College Retirement Equities Fund BBB 32

36 DATA REGION LEADERBOARDS TABLE 13 / REGION LEADERS: ASIA PACIFIC RANKING ASSET OWNER NAME OVERALL RANKING TRANSPARENCY RISK MANAGEMENT LOW CARBON INVESTMENT ACTIVE OWNERSHIP INVESTMENT CHAIN ALIGNMENT OVERALL RATING Local Government Super AAA 2 AustralianSuper AAA 3 First State Super AA 4 VicSuper AA 5 CareSuper A 6 BT Financial Group BBB 7 HESTA BBB 8 Cbus Super BB 9 Equip Super BB 10 UniSuper BB

37 TABLE 14 / REGION LEADERS: MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA RANKING ASSET OWNER NAME OVERALL RANKING TRANSPARENCY RISK MANAGEMENT LOW CARBON INVESTMENT ACTIVE OWNERSHIP INVESTMENT CHAIN ALIGNMENT OVERALL RATING Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) BBB 2 Sanlam Life Insurance Limited D 3 Transnet Retirement Fund D 4 Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (Mumtalakat) D Remainder of Asset Owners are rated X X 06 34

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39 APPENDIX: RATINGS CRITERIA IN DETAIL 01 / TRANSPARENCY Transparency illustrates how an asset owner is communicating with their members and how much information they are releasing publicly on their investment strategy and decision process. The more transparent a company s investment and risk strategy the better. Less available information means less certainty for investors. Asset owners should make as much information publicly available to their members as possible so that members, and potential members, are aware of the risks associated with their investments and able to act accordingly. Asset owners need ensure members are informed about what they are doing to look after their long-term interests. 36

40 APPENDIX: RATINGS CRITERIA IN DETAIL 02 / RISK MANAGEMENT Risk management covers how asset owners manage climate changerelated risks at the portfolio level and also how they drive their fund managers to manage climate risk at the fund and company levels. Asset owners need to assess long-term risks and take an evidence-based view of possible and likely future carbon regulation and physical impacts and factor these into investment decisions. A robust risk management approach is imperative in order to manage the long-term risks associated with climate change. High-carbon assets are commonly capital-intensive and very long-lived. Whether you are developing a coal mine or building a power station, smelting plant or a building, these are assets that last 25 years, often more. Climate change regulation and, in some instances, physical impacts will affect a significant portion of these high-carbon, long-term assets and this therefore poses a huge risk to asset owners whose investment portfolios contain exposure to them.

41 03 / LOW-CARBON INVESTMENT Low-carbon investments include investments in renewable energy, agri-business, water and energy efficiency-related assets as well as the service industries supplying to all these sectors. The low-carbon investment criteria assess which funds are investing in low-carbon assets. That is, whether or not asset owners are hedging their portfolio against climate change risk by allocating money to lowcarbon investments. Hedging the climate risk of a portfolio means asset owners have a diversified range of assets that will not all be affected by any rapid re-pricing of carbon. By holding a significant portion of their portfolio in high-carbon assets they are putting themselves at a huge as carbon regulation increases. Within a typical diversified portfolio, the portion of carbon-exposed assets could be well over 50% and, with tightening carbon regulation, the majority of these are likely to be replaced by low-carbon equivalents. If the high-carbon assets are replaced at the end of their scheduled life then there is little net cost involved. However, they will most likely have to be sold or closed well before the end of their scheduled life, many of them having lives of 25 years or more. For asset owners to avoid exposure to this situation they need to ensure a healthy balance of low-carbon assets building up in the portfolio which will benefit from tightening carbon regulation. 38

42 APPENDIX: RATINGS CRITERIA IN DETAIL 04 / ACTIVE OWNERSHIP Active ownership measures how involved an asset owner is with companies they invest in. When an asset owner buys shares in any company they are able not just to buy and sell that stock as an investment to make money but also to influence the company itself. This includes voting proxies at annual general meetings, being part of shareholder resolutions and using their ownership position to influence the way the company they invest in is being run. In recent years, the awareness of the power of asset owners to control companies has grown rapidly and there are several movements and organisations dedicated to furthering the involvement. Asset owners have a duty to their members to ensure that their investee companies factor long-term climate change risks and other important long-term decisions into their strategy. If they fail to do so they are risking their members savings and retirement.

43 05 / INVESTMENT CHAIN ALIGNMENT Investment chain alignment means that the actions of asset owners, their advisors and fund managers are consistent with the best interests of the beneficiaries. That is, the asset owners have policies, governance structures, investment mandates, review processes and remuneration structures in place to ensure that there are no conflicts of interest between all parties involved with managing money on behalf of beneficiaries such as pension fund members. It is important that asset owners manage third party organisations to ensure that they are not putting their own interests first. Climate change is providing asset owners with a new challenge for driving change in their fund managers. One of the key barriers to this change has been incentive alignment - pension funds members typically have an investment horizon of 40 years whereas fund managers that invest on their behalf are rewarded for performance over a much shorter period of time. Asset owners that rate highly in this area are credited for talking responsibility for their assets and provided a superior service to their members. 40

44 NOTES THE AODP RATINGS METHODOLOGY The Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) 2015 Global Climate 500 Index is built from data acquired directly from the largest asset owners which are invited to respond to the survey and by a research team using publicly available information. The AODP research team use the collected data to score and rank the funds according to the AODP ratings methodology which uses multiple data sets across five main aspects of an asset owner s climate change performance: 1. TRANSPARENCY 2. RISK MANAGEMENT 3. LOW-CARBON INVESTMENT 4. ACTIVE OWNERSHIP 5. INCENTIVE CHAIN ALIGNMENT LOW-CARBON INVESTMENT Using all available data, the AODP ratings team then rated the 500 largest of the 1000 asset owners invited to respond to the survey. In 2015, the 500 asset owners surveyed comprised: / 375 PENSION OR SUPERANNUATION FUNDS; / 66 INSURANCE COMPANIES; / 39 SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS; / 20 ENDOWMENTS, TRUSTS OR FOUNDATIONS

45 RANKING The AODP survey also ranks each asset owner on the basis of its score. RATING Once the asset owners are ranked, a comparative rating is awarded to each asset owner. The AODP rating system is a unique feature of the AODP survey. The larger survey meant that the benchmarks for all categories in the AODP rating system were raised for the 2015 survey. COPIES OF THE AODP 2015 SURVEY AND THE SURVEY METHODOLOGY ARE AVAILABLE ON THE AODP WEBSITE 42

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