FLEXSHARES’ ESG PHILOSOPHY

Our vision for the future of sustainability

Your clients want more than products. They want you to answer:
Why is the FlexShares approach right for me?

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Meeting the demand for sustainable investing

Investors are increasingly seeking positive investment returns that support responsible management of environmental, social and governance factors by companies. FlexShares’ approach helps create ESG* strategies that navigate long-term challenges and opportunities.

How you measure sustainability matters

Learn about the Northern Trust Vector Score – a proprietary framework that FlexShares uses to assess a company’s historic ESG performance and potential future impacts.

"Consistent with our view that investors should be compensated for the risks they take, we believe evaluating companies' performance using ESG criteria enhances our forward-looking view of risks and opportunities. This analysis bolsters our ability to future-fit portfolios and grow clients' capital."

— Angelo Manioudakis, Chief Investment Officer, Northern Trust Asset Management

Take a look at Northern Trust Asset Management's ESG Philosophy

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*ESG investing is defined as utilizing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria as a set of standards for a company’s operations that socially conscious investors use to screen potential investments.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Before investing, carefully consider the FlexShares investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. This and other information is in the prospectus and a summary prospectus, copies of which may be obtained by visiting www.flexshares.com. Read the prospectus carefully before you invest. 

Foreside Fund Services, LLC, distributor. FlexShares and Foreside are not related. 

Please remember that all investments carry some level of risk, including the potential loss of principal invested. They do not typically grow at an even rate of return and may experience negative growth. As with any type of portfolio structuring, attempting to reduce risk and increase return could, at certain times, unintentionally reduce returns. An ESG investment methodology that includes and excludes issuers and assigns weights to issuers by applying non-financial factors, such as ESG factors, such ESG investment methodology may underperform the broader equity market or other investment products that do or do not use ESG investment criteria. An ESG investment methodology will influence exposure to certain companies and sectors.

Currently, there is a lack of common industry standards relating to the development and application of ESG criteria, which may make it difficult to compare an ESG investment methodology with the investment strategies of other investment products or funds that integrate certain ESG criteria. The subjective value that investors may assign to certain types of ESG characteristics may differ substantially from that of an ESG investment methodology or a data provider.

Not all FlexShares ETFs have an ESG focus. For more information on which FlexShares ETFs have an ESG focus, please visit flexshares.com

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