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ESG Core Equity

Invests across the range of market capitalizations and economic sectors in companies that meet Trillium’s sustainability criteria.

ESG Core Equity

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Strategy Overview

Invests across the range of market capitalizations and economic sectors in companies that meet Trillium’s sustainability criteria.

Investment Process

Fundamental equity analysts, who divide coverage by sector, are responsible for providing in-depth analysis of companies and generating new buy ideas consistent with the strategy’s high quality approach, including a rigorous integrated review of financial and ESG factors. The Investment Management Committee, comprised of portfolio managers and analysts, meets periodically to review and approve recommendations to the buy-list recommended by the analysts. A strategy team, headed by the lead Portfolio Manager, rebalances the portfolio on at least a quarterly basis to identify the best subset of names from the buy-list at that particular point of time. The team leverages an optimization process that helps monitor and control portfolio characteristic exposures while overweighting companies based on a proprietary alpha score that includes an analyst rating. In this sense, the strategy is fundamentally driven, but quantitatively assisted.

Portfolio Managers

Mitali Prasad, CFA

Portfolio Manager

Cheryl I. Smith, Ph.D., CFA

Economist, Portfolio Manager

Benchmark

S&P 1500

Inception Date

1994

Strategy Assets*

$1.0b

Holdings

65-80

% Top 10 Holdings

35.28%

Initial Position Size

0-5%

Target Tracking Error

3-4%

Sector Deviation +/-

<5%

Annual Turnover

20-40%

Vehicle Type

Separate Account**

* Strategy Assets are supplemental
** Traditional separately managed accounts as well as model delivery through intermediary partnerships.

Portfolio

Equity Characteristics

as of 3/31/25
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ESG Core Equity

S&P 1500

Market Capitalization (weighted avg. billions)

ESG Core Equity
$857.53
S&P 1500
$1,029.67

P/E (FTM EST)

ESG Core Equity
22.5x
S&P 1500
21.1x

Price/Book

ESG Core Equity
5.3x
S&P 1500
0.7x

Est. 3-5 Yr. EPS Growth

ESG Core Equity
11.66%
S&P 1500
13.30%

ROIC

ESG Core Equity
23.00%
S&P 1500
21.12%

LT Debt/Capital

ESG Core Equity
37.42%
S&P 1500
39.42%

Sector Allocation vs. Benchmark

as of 3/31/25
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ESG Core Equity

S&P 1500

Information Technology

ESG Core Equity
28.0%
S&P 1500
28.1%

Industrials

ESG Core Equity
13.8%
S&P 1500
9.4%

Financials

ESG Core Equity
13.4%
S&P 1500
15.0%

Consumer Discretionary

ESG Core Equity
12.8%
S&P 1500
10.5%

Health Care

ESG Core Equity
8.4%
S&P 1500
11.1%

Communication Services

ESG Core Equity
7.7%
S&P 1500
8.6%

Consumer Staples

ESG Core Equity
6.4%
S&P 1500
5.9%

Materials

ESG Core Equity
3.9%
S&P 1500
2.3%

Real Estate

ESG Core Equity
2.8%
S&P 1500
2.7%

Utilities

ESG Core Equity
2.7%
S&P 1500
2.6%

Energy

ESG Core Equity
0.0%
S&P 1500
3.7%

Sector Allocation, Equity Characteristics and Top Holdings based on a representative account as of 3/31/2025 and exclude cash.

Performance

As of 3/31/2025
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QTR

YTD

1 Year

3 Year

5 Year

10 Year

Inception (1/1/2007)

Gross of Fees

QTR
-6.9%
YTD
-6.9%
1 Year
-0.2%
3 Year
3.6%
5 Year
14.2%
10 Year
9.0%
Inception (1/1/2007)
8.6%

Net of Fees

QTR
-7.3%
YTD
-7.3%
1 Year
-1.7%
3 Year
2.1%
5 Year
12.6%
10 Year
7.4%
Inception (1/1/2007)
7.3%

S&P 1500

QTR
-4.5%
YTD
-4.5%
1 Year
-7.3%
3 Year
8.6%
5 Year
18.4%
10 Year
12.1%
Inception (1/1/2007)
9.9%

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Impact Report

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Factsheet

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Trillium Asset Management, LLC (Trillium) claims compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®). Trillium is an investment advisor registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Investment Advisors act of 1940. For the purposes of establishing and maintaining compliance with the GIPS standards, the firm has elected to define itself exclusive of wrap fee assets under management historically until 10/1/2013. Effective 10/1/2013 the firm has redefined itself to include wrap-fee assets under management. Previously, the firm included only institutional and high net worth accounts. The firm was redefined to include the wrap-fee business to reflect all business lines managed by the organization.

The ESG Core Equity Composite was created on September 14th 2011 and has an inception date of January 1, 2007, and includes all discretionary portfolios managed in the ESG Core Equity style. The U.S. Dollar is the currency used to express valuations and performance.

Trillium ESG Core Equity seeks to provide competitive long-term returns by investing in a well diversified portfolio across a range of market capitalizations. Time-weighted returns are presented for all periods net of trading costs and both net and gross of management fees, includes the reinvestment of all income, and is vested and calculated on a trade date basis.  Net-of-fee performance is calculated using actual management fees from composite inception through December 31, 2012. Beginning January 1, 2013 net composite level returns are calculated by reducing the composite level gross returns by the highest fee of 1.50%. Prior to January 1, 2022, actual fees were used in calculating net returns. All net returns were changed retroactively since 2013 to reflect the highest fee (1.50%).. Individual performance will vary from that of the composite.

Lists, descriptions, and GIPS Reports are available upon request for all Trillium performance composites.

The S&P Indices are widely recognized, unmanaged indices of common stock. It is not possible to invest directly in an index. The S&P 1500 combines three indices, the S&P 500, the S&P MidCap 400, and the S&P SmallCap 600 to cover approximately 90% of the U.S. market capitalization.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Every investment carries the potential for both profit and loss. The strategy’s ESG policy could cause it to make or avoid investments that could result in the strategy underperforming similar strategies that do not have an ESG policy.  

Investments in smaller and medium companies generally carry greater risk than is customarily associated with larger companies for various reasons, such as narrower markets, limited financial resources and less liquid stock.

GIPS® is a registered trademark of CFA Institute. CFA Institute does not endorse or promote this organization, nor does it warrant the accuracy or quality of the content contained herein.

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