Pharus Sicav Best Regulated Companies

Class QD (Listed)
ISIN: LU1868872802
Category: Other Equity
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20.01.2025
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Net Asset Value89,56 EUR
Fund Size42.046.366 EUR
Launch Date 4 lug 2019
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SicavPHARUS SICAV
Management CompanyPHARUS MANAGEMENT LUX SA
Investment ManagerPharus Asset Management SA
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Investment objective
The objective of the segment is to grow capital over the medium to long term by investing in specialized infrastructure companies within regulated sectors. These are infrastructure networks that offer services of strategic/social importance to states, and for these reasons often operate as monopolies, being remunerated by ex-ante defined returns. The sector has little connection to the business cycle, and the companies are characterized by very stable earnings growth and high cash flows that result in solid and sustainable dividend yields over time.
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Manager comment
Manager comment
During December Pharus Best Regulated Companies recorded a performance of -5%, bringing the performance YTD to +13%. Global equity markets end a negative month, recording a 2.6% decline, driven particularly by Powell’s statements, where he announces rate cuts, but delivers hawkish messages providing less dovish guidance with respect to the development of the monetary policy, in particular by reducing the number of rate cuts for 2025 and raising the terminal rate. These statements push rates higher, in particular the U.S. Treasury which reaches 4.6%, also dragging down sectors considered more sensitive to rates, like the utilities. Fundamentals remain strong, and the sector could benefit from a valuation repricing in a risk-off market. European utilities are very interesting, offering dividend yields between 5% and 6%, well above the yields of 10-year government bonds.
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*Performance is shown with gross income reinvested, based on net asset value and does not include the effect of any initial or exit charges.
* No coverage or derivatives are included
* No coverage or derivatives are included
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How to invest
SFDR Article: 8

SFDR Article: 8

The Sub-Fund does not have as its objective a sustainable investment, but promotes social characteristics with a proportion of sustainable investments with a social objective and environmental objective in economic activities that do not qualify as environmentally sustainable under the EU Taxonomy of at least 80% of its assets.

Objectives

The Sub-Fund’s sustainable investment objective is to protect the planet’s natural resources and climate for future generations, investing in companies with limited revenues coming from business with high carbon emissions, water stress, impact on the climate, toxic emissions and waste, in favor of companies offering and developing renewable energies. Moreover, it promotes, just and inclusive principles, evidencing a strong Sustainability rating and following good governance practices, while avoids the exposure to companies involved in controversial weapons production, tobacco production, adult entertainment, gambling sector, violation of United Nation Global Pact, as per the internal ESG policy defined.

The environmental characteristics promoted by the sub-fund are linked to:

  • Reduction of the environmental impact in the production phases
  • Attention on the consumption of natural resources
  • Development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.

Social characteristics promoted are mainly represented by the below:

  • Security of products and health
  • Human rights and human dignity
  • Equality labour conditions
  • Governance
The environmental characteristics promoted by the sub-fund are linked to:

The environmental characteristics promoted by the sub-fund are linked to:

  • Reduction of the environmental impact in the production phases
  • Attention on the consumption of natural resources
  • Development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.
Social characteristics promoted are mainly represented by the below:

Social characteristics promoted are mainly represented by the below:

  • Security of products and health
  • Human rights and human dignity
  • Equality labour conditions
  • Governance
As of 31.12.2024
As of
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Enviroment
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Security of products and health
3
Human rights and human dignity
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Equality labor conditions
5
Governance

Asset Allocation

All the investments are assessed ex ante by an independent external ESG advisor and need to be compliant with including criteria and not in breach with excluding criteria set out on the applicable ESG policy. Investments aligned with E/S characteristic must attain the social and environmental characteristics promoted by the financial product and must represent at least 80% of the Sub-fund’s asset. Sustainable investments are investments in securities whose rating is considered acceptable and which comply with the excluding criteria set out in the ESG policy applicable. Other Investments include cash, derivatives, bonds and equities which do not have any ESG rating or with a weak ESG rating and can represent up to 20% of the portfolio.

Asset Allocation

Principal adverse impacts

This financial product considers PAI and monitors additional PAI with the support of an ESG Advisor that produces, on quarterly basis, a complete report that illustrates the PAI and the results for the portfolio. Furthermore, the Sub-Fund focuses on the PAI number 10 and 11. PAI number 10 monitors/takes into consideration weight of company with severe violation of UNGC principles or OECD guidelines for multinationals. PAI number 11 refers to weight of companies without mechanism for monitoring the compliance with UNGC principles and OECD guidelines.

Binding elements

The exclusion criteria applied to the investment universe, are aimed to exclude companies

Involved in controversial weapons production whose revenues deriving from the production of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons are higher than 5%
Whose revenues deriving from gambling sector is higher than 5%;
Whose revenues deriving from the tobacco production is higher than 5%;
Whose revenues deriving from adult entertainment sector is higher than 5%;
Which do not respect the principles of United Nation Global Pact.

The inclusion criteria is made up by 60% of scoring weight related to environmental factors, the other 40% is about Social and Governance factors including such companies:

Whose revenues deriving from toxic emissions are below 5%
Whose revenues linked to carbon emission are below 5%
Whose revenues deriving from water stress are below 5%
With revenues deriving from renewable energy
Limiting their impact on the climate
Treatment of emplyees
Product safety
Business ethics

In addition to the above, another binding element is the use of ESG ratings. The certified portfolio average ESG Quality score is B+ with a portfolio ESG Rating of 6.72, which cannot fall below B.
ESG Rating
Portfolio Scores
31.12.2024
B+
ESG Quality Score
6.72
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