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SFDR Disclosure

The EU Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) took effect on 10 March 2021 as part of the EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance. The SFDR lays down harmonised sustainability related disclosure rules for EU financial market participants and advisors and requires certain sustainability disclosures to be made for financial products which promote environmental or social characteristics (Article 8 SFDR) and funds which have a sustainable investment objective (Article 9 SFDR).

There are different SFDR product categorisations for these sustainability disclosure requirements:

+ Article 6 products: require disclosures relating to the manner in which sustainability risks are integrated into the decision-making process.
+ Article 8 products: promote, among other characteristics, environmental or social characteristics or a combination of those characteristics, provided that the companies in which the investments are made follow good governance practices.
+ Article 9 products: have sustainable investment as their objective

Please refer to EU regulation guidelines for more details: https://www.esma.europa.eu/sections/sustainable-finance

ESG Characteristics

The fund tracks an index which seeks to exclude from the eligible investment universe companies that (i) violate, certain commonly accepted international norms and standards, such as United Nations and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) guidelines, ((ii) are involved in certain controversial weapons such as anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions as well as those involved in depleted uranium weapons and white phosphorus weapons and those that support nuclear weapons programmes to states outside the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or “NPT”), (iii) are significantly involved in the tobacco industry, (iv) are significantly involved in thermal coal activity, such as coal mining and exploration and coal-based power generation, (v) are significantly involved in unconventional oil and gas exploration/production, such as oil sands, Arctic oil and gas or shale energy, (vi) do not meet such other ESG criteria such as significant involvement in small arms, as detailed in the Index methodology. Visit our ESG Hub to learn more about WisdomTree's ESG approach.