Sustainability
and ESG

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Why it matters to us

While financial returns matter, so too does the impact our investments have on society and the environment. We work closely with the Columbia Threadneedle Responsible Investment team to systematically integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into CT UK Capital and Income Investment Trust’s investment process, with a view to reducing risk and improving returns over the long term – both in financial and sustainability terms.

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Our Approach

Responsible Investment issues can present both opportunities and threats to the long-term investment performance we, the Board, aim to deliver to you, our Shareholders. We, believe in the power of engaged, long-term ownership as a force for positive change.

 

We have a Manager that applies high standards of responsible investment in managing the investments on behalf of the Company.

 

Our approach covers our own governance responsibilities too on matters such as the composition of the Board. 

Responsible Ownership

We recognise that the most material way in which the Company can have an impact is through its responsible ownership of its investments. We have therefore appointed a manager that engages actively with the management of investee companies to encourage that high standards of Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) practice are adopted.

 

The Manager has long been at the forefront of the investment industry in its consideration of these issues and has one of the longest established and largest teams focused solely on ESG.

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Voting on the portfolio investments

Engaging actively with companies on significant ESG matters, to reduce risk, improve performance, encourage best practice and underpin long-term investor value forms a fundamental part of the Manager’s approach towards responsible investment. Engagement in the first instance rather than simply divesting or excluding investment opportunities is also part of this approach.


We expect the Company’s shares to be voted on all holdings where possible. During the last financial year, the Manager voted at 57 meetings of companies held in the Company. With respect to all items voted, the Manager supported over 98% of all management resolutions. The most contentious issues were director related, followed by compensation.

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