ESG Growth and Income

Invests in larger cap stocks that are well-diversified across economic sectors, have higher dividend yields, and meet Trillium’s sustainability criteria.

Invests in larger cap stocks that are well-diversified across economic sectors, have higher dividend yields, and 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.

Contact Information

Tom Simunovic
Tom Simunovic
ESG Investment Strategy Specialist and Relationship Manager
tsimunovic@trilliuminvest.com617-532-6673

Portfolio Managers

Mitali Prasad, CFA
Mitali Prasad, CFA
Lead Portfolio Manager
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Cheryl Smith, CFA, PhD
Jeremy A. Cote, CFA
Portfolio Manager
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Benchmark
S&P 500
Inception Date
2012
Strategy Assets*
$69m
Holdings
65-80
% Top 10 Holdings
39.63%
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.
Equity Characteristics
as of 12/31/23
ESG Growth
And Income
S&P 500
Market Capitalization
(weighted avg. billions)
$685.63
$721.66
P/E (FY1 EST)
20.7x
19.8x
Price/Book
4.8x
4.2x
Est. 3-5 Yr. EPS Growth
12.16%
11.59%
Dividend Yield
1.51%
1.46%
LT Debt/Capital
42.29%
42.27%
ROIC
19.93%
17.82%
Sector Allocation vs. Benchmark
as of 12/31/23
ESG Growth
And Income
S&P 500
Information Technology
29.3%
28.9%
Health Care
14.7%
12.6%
Financial Services
13.5%
13.0%
Industrials
11.6%
8.8%
Consumer Staples
7.4%
6.2%
Consumer Discretionary
7.6%
10.9%
Communication Services
6.6%
8.6%
Real Estate
4.5%
2.5%
Materials
3.6%
2.4%
Utilities
1.3%
2.3%
Energy
0.0%
3.9%
Sector Allocation, Equity Characteristics and Top Holdings based on a representative account as of 12/31/2023 and exclude cash.
As of 12/31/23
QTR
YTD
1 Year
3 Year
5 Year
10 Year
Inception
(7/1/2012)
Gross of Fees
11.2%
20.3%
20.3%
10.0%
14.6%
10.8%
12.6%
Net of Fees
11.0%
19.5%
19.5%
9.3%
13.8%
10.0%
11.8%
Benchmark - S&P 500
11.7%
26.3%
26.3%
10.0%
15.7%
12.0%
13.7%
Annualized time-weighted returns for ESG Growth & Income composite through 12/31/2023. Time periods less than one year are not annualized. The ESG Growth & Income Composite was created on November 11, 2012 and has an inception date of July 1, 2012. Composite Assets are $14.1 million as of 12/31/2023.  Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Every investment carries the potential for both profit and loss. IMPORTANT: Please see important performance disclosures below.
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