This document summarizes ClearBridge Advisors' socially aware investing (SAI) strategy. It notes that SAI aims to maximize both financial returns and social good by investing in companies promoting best practices in environmental, social, and governance issues. The document highlights that ClearBridge Advisors was an early pioneer in SAI, managing such portfolios since 1987, and that their SAI process integrates SAI-specific analysts and managers into their investment teams. It also summarizes evidence that SAI strategies have historically outperformed broad market indexes over medium- and long-term periods.
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Good intentions get good results. Do your clients
want to earn returns and help to make the world a
better place? They can potentially accomplish both
through socially aware investing (“SAI”). Legg Mason’s
ClearBridge Advisors is among the leading — and
most experienced — SAI investment managers.
Q410 | Separately Managed Accounts
2. Difference in annualized returns of MSCI KLD 400 Social Index and S&P 500 Index (%) for periods ending December 31, 2010
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Socially aware stocks are represented by the MSCI KLD 400 Social Index, and the
broad stock market is represented by the S&P 500 Index. Investors cannot invest directly in an index. Sources: Legg Mason and MSCI.com.
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Inception date of MSCI KLD 400 Social Index is May 1, 1990.
SAI aims to maximize both financial return and social good. It favors companies
that promote best practices concerning the environment, social issues and
corporate governance. As companies increasingly adopt SAI priorities into
their business practices, these priorities become critical to competitiveness
and profitability — which ultimately drive stock prices.
It’s widely believed that returns suffer when SAI criteria are added to the investment process. But
precisely the opposite is true: SAI-related stocks have outperformed the broad stock market over the
medium and longer terms.
Socially aware stocks have historically outperformed
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3. ClearBridge Advisors: a pioneer of socially aware investing. ClearBridge
Advisors, Legg Mason’s largest equity manager, was among the first — and
largest — mainstream investment managers to commit to socially aware
investing. It has managed SAI portfolios since 1987.
As a firm, ClearBridge has focused on high-quality companies, active manage-
ment and careful stock selection dating back to its origins over 45 years ago.
Its SAI process neatly fits into this approach in two key ways:
SAI-specific portfolio managers and
research analysts are fully integrated
into ClearBridge’s style-based invest-
ment teams.1 2
The ClearBridge SAI investment process seeks best-in-class
socially aware companies
In SAI portfolios, SAI investment
criteria are as essential to the stock
selection process as a style team’s
own fundamental criteria.
Monitor continuously
Sector analysts and portfolio
managers review portfolio holdings
and engage companies on
fundamental and SAI issues
Select securities and construct portfolio
• Uses fundamental and SAI criteria to
evaluate stocks
• Select stocks defined “best in class”
according to fundamental and SAI criteria
Conduct fundamental analysis
Refines investment universe by
eliminating less-attractive companies
Define initial investment universe
Considers companies whose market cap is similar to those
in the S&P 500 Index, Russell 1000 and Russell 3000 indices
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