We believe that the companies we invest in should be transparent and ethically responsible. We also believe that we should meet these high standards. Consequently we abide by the United Nations principles of Responsible Investment and provide our clients, platform providers and regulators almost unrestricted access to all of our data and team members.
Capital protection underlies VIP’s investment methodology and is always at the forefront of VIP’s thinking. Our mandates and systems permit us to completely exit asset classes we expect to underperform. The process has consistently protected our clients capital and generated sound risk metrics especially given the strong returns generated by VIP.
We believe a successful investor must be tactical and adaptive to changing markets allowing them to take advantage of opportunities and avoid exposure to underperforming asset classes. VIP’s tactical asset allocation process, underpinned by decades of expertise, is set up to enable quick responses to the ever evolving investment environment.
VIP brings a strong ethical view towards the way it invests its clients funds as reflected in our use of Sustainalytics ratings to filter out companies with unacceptable practices. Notably the exclusions we have made on ESG grounds have not prevented our flagship Growth Portfolio from delivering strong returns. Similarly our Ethical and Climate Sustainability portfolios have consistently outperformed their benchmarks
