Responsible Horizons
What is Responsible Horizons?
Many investors are looking to achieve a positive environmental or social impact, and to invest in sustainable businesses that will stand the test of time. Every Responsible Horizons portfolio will:
- Reflect long-term themes, such as climate change and social inequality.
- Emphasise the best and avoid the worst performers on ESG issues, based on research powered by Insight Prime.
- Avoid certain investments with a negative impact, including tobacco producers.
- Apply a higher hurdle for environmentally sensitive industries, like energy companies.
Introduction to Responsible Horizons

Prime: the ESG data behind Responsible Horizons
Prime is Insight Investment’s proprietary environmental, social and governance (ESG) rating system, which uses extensive global data and in-depth analysis to highlight key ESG risks.
Insight’s portfolio managers and analysts use Prime to support their investment decisions, inform their engagement with companies, and to build portfolios with sustainability goals.
Introduction to Prime Corporate ESG Ratings

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About Insight Investment
Insight Investment is one of the world’s largest investment managers, with extensive expertise in risk management, fixed income and absolute return strategies.
Why Insight?
A founding signatory to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2006, Insight has long believed that ESG factors can affect the value of investments. Reflecting the deep integration of ESG analysis in Insight’s business and activities, in 2020, the PRI awarded A+ ratings to Insight for strategy and governance, and for all relevant fixed income capabilities.
Responsible Horizons aims to build on Insight’s evidence-based approach to both investment research and ESG analysis, supported by ESG ratings from Insight’s proprietary model Prime, to offer leading solutions for investors seeking to express their values as they pursue attractive returns.
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focus
Solution focus
Responsible Horizons strategies invest to achieve a financial return alongside positive environmental or social outcomes, with long-term sustainability in mind.
Responsible Horizons strategies invest to achieve a financial return alongside positive environmental or social outcomes, with long-term sustainability in mind.
In 2020, the PRI awarded A+ ratings to Insight for strategy and governance, and for all its fixed income capabilities.
Insight has developed cutting-edge proprietary tools for corporate and sovereign ESG risks, corporate climate risks, and impact bonds
Insight has analysed ESG risks and engaged on relevant factors with company management and sovereign issuers for many years. In 2019, over 80% of Insight’s 1,151 engagements with corporate debt issuers covered ESG issues.
Meet the Insight team
Insight embeds ESG risk analysis across its investment processes: every portfolio manager and analyst is expected to take ESG factors into account where they are material and relevant to the investments they oversee.
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Adrian Grey

Robert Sawbridge

Joshua Kendall

Lucy Speake
Underpinned by Insight’s precise and evidence-based approach, Responsible Horizons emphasises both in-depth investment research and active engagement to understand risks and improve behaviour.
$12+ billion in
100+ clients worldwide
100+ clients worldwide
100+ clients worldwide
100+ clients worldwide
Resources

Why responsible investors should not ignore fixed income

Renewables shift could drive new investment opportunity

Fixed income investors face ESG analysis challenge

Impact bond issuance taps growing demand

EVs and the road ahead

Will the Covid-19 crisis reset investment thinking on sustainability?

Positive thinking

Socially mobile

Terms of engagement

Eastern promise?

European vision
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The value of investments can fall. Investors may not get back the amount invested.
Important information
*Investment Managers are appointed by BNY Mellon Investment Management EMEA Limited (BNYMIM EMEA), BNY Mellon Fund Management (Luxembourg) S.A. (BNY MFML) or affiliated fund operating companies to undertake portfolio management activities in relation to contracts for products and services entered into by clients with BNYMIM EMEA, BNY MFML or the BNY Mellon funds.
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