UK Institutional Food Innovation

Strategy highlights

  • Enables investors to gain targeted exposure to long-term opportunities arising across food and agriculture-related industries worldwide
  • Long-term thematic research identifies drivers of change, providing a framework for idea generation
  • Investing in companies that positively manage the material impacts of their operations and products on the environment and society
  • Actively omitting companies involved in areas of high social cost, environmental degradation or violation of the UN Global Compact Principles
Learn more about our multidimensional investment philosophy

Strategy profile

Objective

The strategy aims to achieve long-term capital growth while promoting environmental and social characteristics by investing globally in companies engaged in the food supply chain.

Performance benchmark

MSCI AC World NDR

Red lines

Our ‘red lines’ are built on a combination of exclusions that effectively avoid investments in security issuers involved in or that generate a material proportion of revenues from areas of activity that we deem to be harmful from a social and/or environmental perspective.
Read more about our red lines.

Strategy inception

January 2021

Strategy available through pooled UK vehicle

BNY Mellon Food Innovation Fund

View Key Investor Information Document
View prospectus

Investment team

The strategy is managed by a team with a wide range of backgrounds. In-house research analysts are at the core of our investment process, and our multidimensional research platform spans fundamental, thematic, responsible investment, quantitative, geopolitical, investigative and private-market research to promote better-informed investment decisions.

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Karen Miki Behr
Karen Miki Behr

Portfolio manager, Global Opportunities team

Paul Byrne
Paul Byrne

Quantitative analyst and portfolio manager, quantitative equity team

Insights

Blog

Retake on Double Take: Bug appétit?

Could edible insects become a staple of the Western diet?
20 June 2024 Jack Encarnacao, Raphael J. Lewis
Blog

Retake on Double Take: Behind Fed doors

Get a behind-the-scenes look into how the US Federal Reserve arrives at its rate decisions.
14 June 2024 Jack Encarnacao, Raphael J. Lewis
Theme update
Blog

Inflation, debt and rates: The trinity defining markets

We assess the current and potential future impact of inflation, debt and interest rates upon markets.
12 June 2024 Paul Brain

Your capital may be at risk. The value of investments and the income from them can fall as well as rise and investors may not get back the original amount invested.

Newton will make investment decisions that are not based solely on ESG criteria. Other attributes of an investment may outweigh ESG analysis when making investment decisions. The way that ESG and sustainability criteria are assessed and the evaluation of their suitability for Newton’s sustainable strategies may vary depending on the asset class and strategy involved. For Newton’s sustainable strategies, ESG analysis is performed prior to investment for corporate investments (single name equity and fixed-income securities). The analysis will then also follow the Newton sustainable investment process to ensure it fits with the wider Newton sustainable investment philosophy.

Key investment risks

  • Objective/performance risk: There is no guarantee that the strategy will achieve its objectives.
  • Currency risk: This strategy invests in international markets which means it is exposed to changes in currency rates which could affect the value of the strategy.
  • Emerging markets risk: Emerging Markets have additional risks due to less-developed market practices.
  • Concentration risk: A fall in the value of a single investment may have a significant impact on the value of the strategy because it typically invests in a limited number of investments.
  • Counterparty risk: The insolvency of any institutions providing services such as custody of assets or acting as a counterparty to derivatives or other contractual arrangements, may expose the strategy to financial loss.
  • Sustainable strategies risk: The strategy follows a sustainable investment approach, which may cause it to perform differently from strategies that have a similar objective but which do not integrate sustainable investment criteria when selecting securities.