Our policy details the embedding of responsible investing into our five stage responsible investment integration process.

ESG considerations are embedded into the bottom-up fundamental analysis undertaken by our research analysts throughout our process, and by our portfolio managers in the investment decision-making stage.

Please click here for the latest version of the responsible investment policy, and click here for our engagement policy.

A number of MCQS strategies have a dedicated statement of intent. Such strategies go further in their commitment to responsible investing by outlining their own approach and minimum expectations. For more information, please contact your regular sales coverage or email CQClientService@cqsm.com

We seek to maintain an open dialogue with issuers in which we invest, using our position as a global credit provider to influence long-term change in the way companies operate or behave. 

Engagement forms part of a wider approach to the assessment and integration of ESG factors. It provides opportunity to gather further information, which feeds into our bottom-up, fundamental analysis, and helps to deepen our understanding of material factors that underpin an issuer’s strategy, cash flow, or valuation. 

Where relevant, it also provides opportunity to influence positive change in issuers’ business practices, disclosure, and performance that reduce material risks faced by companies over time.

As part of our framework, we adopt a three-pronged approach to engagement activity, with three key overarching engagement priorities, as outlined below.

Climate change presents both risks and opportunities to the world and to our business, which can be systemic and don't exist in isolation as financial implications are increasingly felt. 

As part of the integration of stewardship and ESG factors into our investment process, we seek to assess how environmental changes may affectthe companies to whom we lend and in which we invest.

In our view, managing the impact of the transition to a low-carbon economy is essential to deliver the returns and outcomes sought by our investors, as well as playing our part to deliver the goals of the Paris Agreement. Indeed, addressing decarbonisation is now critical to ensure we mitigate risk of physical impacts of a changing climate and deliver opportunities for our clients.

This forms part of our Targeted Engagement Programme, where we look to engage with issuers to ensure they're net-zero aligned, and adopt strategies for climate change adaptation, resilience, and mitigation.

Click here for the latest MCQS Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) report.

During our journey to net zero, we're committed to taking responsibility for our own business emissions. We've partnered with Carbon Footprint to offset the scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions emitted across each of our offices and from staff business travel.