Fund Details

GC One Equity Portfolio I

GCG 495

Asset Class

Multi Asset Solutions

Fund Total AUM on 3/26/2024

CAD $35,325,993

Daily Price

CAD $11.65

Inception Date 1

4/28/2022

MER 2

0.23%

Distributions

Income – Quarterly

Capital Gains – Annual

Minimum Investment

$50 initial

Risk Classification 3

Low Medium High

Documents

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Performance

Calendar Year Performance

YTD-2024

5.69

2023

15.98

Annual Compound Performance as of 2/29/2024 4

† S.I. (Since Inception) is the performance since Inception Date

Growth of $10,000 5


Investment Objectives

The primary objective of the Fund is to provide a conservative equity portfolio that emphasizes income generation, with some level of growth of capital, through diversified investments in Canadian and foreign equity or equity-related securities.


Investment Strategy

The Fund invests in securities of other investment funds managed by us, and may also invest in other securities, including exchange traded funds, to achieve its objectives. We use strategic and tactical asset allocation to create a portfolio diversified by investment style and geographic region, with an emphasis on income generation. The portfolio generally includes exposure to Canadian equities and foreign equities. Currently, the Fund’s long-term asset mix policy is 25% Canadian equities and 75% foreign equities, with cash reserves incorporated in these two equity components. If the asset mix between Canadian and foreign equities varies by more than 15% from the long-term mix, the Fund is normally rebalanced.


Risk Considerations

The risks associated with investing in the Fund remain as discussed in the prospectus. This Fund may be suitable for investors looking for an equity portfolio that produces income and some growth; are comfortable with medium investment risk; and plan to hold this investment for the medium to long term.


Top Holdings as of 2/29/2024

Holdings
% Asset Mix
Guardian I3 Global Dividend Growth Fund Series I
32.65%
Guardian Fundamental Global Equity Fund Series I
31.97%
Guardian Canadian Equity Select Fund Series I
9.19%
Guardian Canadian Growth Equity Fund Series I
7.66%
Guardian U.S. Equity All Cap Growth Fund Series I
4.91%
Guardian Canadian Equity Fund Series I
2.46%
Guardian Canadian Focused Equity Fund Series I
2.43%
Guardian Directed Premium Yield ETF
2.26%
Guardian I3 Global Quality Growth Fund Series I
1.52%
GUARDIAN US EQ SEL FD – SER I
1.51%

Top holdings represent 96.57% of the fund.


Asset Mix


Morningstar® Sustainability Rating™

Average

Relative to Category:

Global Equity Large Cap

# of Funds in Category:

8,155

Morningstar®
Low Carbon Designation™

As of 2023-11-30

Source: Morningstar® Essentials™. The Sustainability Rating is based on the Portfolio Corporate and Sovereign Sustainability Scores listed below, while the Low Carbon Designation is based on the Carbon Risk Score and Fossil Fuel Involvement listed below. Please click here to read the Definitions of the Morningstar® Ratings, Scores and their methodologies below, which includes information about when a rating may not be received.


Responsible investing for a sustainable world

Guardian Capital LP is a signatory of the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) and as such we are obligated to incorporate ESG issues into our investment analysis and decision-making processes. The UN PRI does not prescribe the exclusion of any particular type of company or industry; rather it requires that we are informed on the ESG issues, and that we are comfortable with the activities and practices of the companies that we invest in.

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Morningstar® Portfolio Sustainability Score™

This score between 0-100, measures the degree to which the underlying portfolio of companies are exposed to material ESG factors that can negatively impact economic value. A lower score represents a lower degree of sustainability risk.

Fund
Category Average
Portfolio Corporate Sustainability Score™
20.30
20.70
Portfolio Sovereign Sustainability Score™
10.91
13.53

Source: Morningstar® Essentials™ based on long positions only as at 2023-11-30. Sustainalytics provides company level analysis used in the calculation of Morningstar’s Sustainability Score. The proportional relative contribution to the overall Morningstar Sustainability Rating from the Fund’s Corporate and Sovereign positions is 39.00% and 3.00%, respectively. These scores are based on the percent of Eligible Portfolio Covered, which is 99.26% of Corporate positions and is 100.00% of Sovereign positions. For a description of the Morningstar Portfolio Sustainability Scores, please see the disclaimer below by clicking here.


Morningstar® Sustainability Pillar Scores vs. Category Average

Source: Morningstar® Essentials™ based on long positions only as at 2023-11-30. Sustainalytics provides company level analysis used in the calculation of Morningstar’s Sustainability Score. The proportional relative contribution to the overall Corporate Sustainability Score from the Fund’s ESG allocation is 23.32% Environmental, 43.64% Social, 32.84% Governance and 0.20% Unallocated Risk, respectively. For a description of the Morningstar Sustainability Pillar Scores, please see the disclaimer below by clicking here.


Morningstar® Carbon Risk Metrics vs. Category Average

Source: Morningstar® Essentials™ based on long positions only as at 2023-11-30. These scores are based on the percent of Eligible Portfolio Covered, which is 95.11% for Carbon Risk and is 95.11% for Fossil Fuel Involvement. For a description of the Morningstar Portfolio Carbon Risk Scores and Fossil Fuel Involvement, please see the disclaimer below by clicking here.


Fund’s Distribution of Carbon Risk (%)

Source: Morningstar® Essentials™ based on long positions only as at 2023-11-30. Sustainalytics provides company level analysis used in the calculation of Morningstar’s Sustainability Score. *Percentages represent the contribution to overall Carbon Risk Score. For a description of the Fund’s Distribution of Carbon Risk, please see the disclaimer below by clicking here.


Investment Team

David Onyett-Jeffries

David Onyett-Jeffries, CFA, MA

Vice-President, Economics & Multi Asset Solutions – Guardian Capital LP

Denis Larose

Denis Larose, CFA

Chief Investment Officer – Guardian Capital LP


Disclaimer:

The information contained on this Fund page is designed to provide you with general information related to the mutual fund or ETF (the “Fund”) and is not intended to be comprehensive investment advice applicable to the circumstances of the individual. We strongly recommend you to consult with a financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions.

1 The Inception Date is the start date of investment performance for the Fund and may not coincide with the date the Fund or series was first offered for sale under a prospectus or its legal date of creation.

2 The Management Expense Ratio (“MER”) represents the trailing 12-month management expense ratio, which reflects the cost of running the Fund, inclusive of applicable taxes including HST, GST and QST (excluding certain portfolio transaction costs) as a percentage of daily average net asset value the period, including the Fund’s proportionate share of any underlying fund(s) expenses, if applicable. The MER reported herein is from the Fund’s most recent Management Report of Fund Performance (“MRFP”).

3 The Risk Rating classification of the Fund has been determined in accordance with a standardized risk classification methodology in National Instrument 81-102, which is based on the Fund’s historical volatility as measured by the 10-year standard deviation of the Fund’s returns. Where a fund has offered securities to the public for less than 10 years, the standardized methodology requires that the standard deviation of a reference mutual fund or index that reasonably approximates the fund’s standard deviation be used to determine the fund’s risk rating. Please note that historical performance may not be indicative of future returns and the Fund’s historical volatility may not be indicative of future volatility.

4 The Rate of Return indicated in the charts above are used only to illustrate the effects of the compound growth rate and are not intended to reflect the future value of the Fund or returns on investment in the Fund.


5 The Growth of $10,000 chart shows the final value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment in securities of this series of the Fund as at the end of the investment period indicated and is not intended to reflect future values or returns on investment in such securities.

Material Events: For any major events that may affect the performance of a Fund in the last 10 years, including, where applicable, its participation in an amalgamation or merger with another fund or a change in its investment objectives or portfolio advisor, please refer to the Fund’s most recent prospectus in the section entitled “Name, Formation and History of the Funds”. The performance of a Fund may have been different had events such as these not taken place.

Glossary of Financial Terms: For more information on the financial terms used in this section, please refer to the Glossary of Financial Terms on our website at: https://www.guardiancapital.com/glossary-of-terms

Historic disclosure documents for the Fund may be found on the SEDAR+ website at www.SEDARPLUS.ca or may also be obtained, free of charge, by contacting us at 1 (866) 383-6546 or insights@guardiancapital.com



Morningstar Sustainability Rating disclaimers:

To review the historical 12 month history of the Fund’s ratings, rankings and scores, based on the Morningstar Sustainability Rating for Funds Methodology and Morningstar Low Carbon Designation Methodology, please click here.

*Please note that the Morningstar Sustainability Rating and the Morningstar Low Carbon Designation, and any other rankings and scores, are updated monthly, typically 45 days after each month-end.  The Fund’s ESG data presented may not be as recent as the Fund’s performance or holdings data.

A Fund will not be assigned a fund-level ESG rating, ranking or score by Morningstar if it is new or does not have a sufficient enough portion of its assets under management qualified for rating according to Morningstar’s Sustainability Rating for Fund Methodology and/or the Morningstar Low Carbon Designation Methodology, as applicable (see below for each methodology). Excluded from qualified holdings are short positions, cash and currency, derivatives and synthetic holdings; similarly, municipal bonds, commodities, real estate, and alternative investment types are not considered corporate or sovereign and are not currently eligible to contribute toward the overall rating.  The Morningstar Sustainability Rating a Fund receives is determined relative to other funds in the same Morningstar Global Category, and a Fund could have similar ESG risk to another fund yet still receive a different rating if those funds are in different Global Categories The Morningstar Global Category assignments help investors search for investments domiciled across the globe  which have similar attributes, as described in Morningstar’s Global Category Classifications found here: https://www.morningstar.com/content/dam/marketing/shared/research/methodology/860250-GlobalCategoryClassifications.pdf   

Morningstar Sustainability Ratings and scores are portfolio-based, not performance-based. They do not reflect a Fund’s performance on either an absolute or risk-adjusted basis, nor are they a qualitative Morningstar evaluation of a Fund’s merits and should not be the sole basis for an investment decision.

The Fund’s Morningstar Sustainability and Carbon ratings, rankings and scores evaluate the ESG aspects of the Fund’s portfolio holdings and do not evaluate the efficacy of the Fund’s ESG investment strategies and are not indicative of how well ESG considerations are integrated by the Fund. The full rating methodology employed by Morningstar can be found on their website or by clicking on the following links: Morningstar Sustainability Rating for Fund Methodology or the Morningstar Low Carbon Designation Methodology.

A copy of the Morningstar Sustainability Rating Methodology or Morningstar Low Carbon Designation Methodology documents may also be obtained, free of charge, by contacting us at 1 (866) 383-6546 or insights@guardiancapital.com  Other providers may also prepare ESG ratings and rankings of mutual funds and ETFs based on their own methodologies, which may differ from the methodology employed by Morningstar.

Definitions and Summaries of the Morningstar Ratings and Methodologies:

The Morningstar® Sustainability Rating™ is a ranking of a fund’s ESG risks relative to that fund’s Morningstar Global Category peers, and is updated monthly. It provides a measure of how well the issuing companies of the securities within a fund’s portfolio are managing their financially material ESG risks.  The Morningstar Sustainability Rating is depicted by globe icons where 5 globes equals High ranking (lower ESG risk) and 1 globe equals Low ranking (higher ESG risk) compared to category peers.  A higher Sustainability Rating represents lower ESG risk relative to a fund’s peer group.

The Morningstar Sustainability Rating is calculated from the combined proportional Portfolio Corporate Sustainability Rating and Portfolio Sovereign Sustainability Rating, for the trailing 12 months on long-only positions.  A Morningstar Sustainability Rating is assigned to any fund that has either or both a Corporate and Sovereign Portfolio Sustainability Score™, and which requires i) that at least 67% of the fund’s underlying assets are Qualified Holdings that are eligible to be rated and ii) is within a Morningstar Global Category with at least 30 scored funds; therefore, the rating is not limited to funds with explicit sustainable or responsible investment mandates. Excluded from Qualified Holdings are short positions, cash and currency, derivatives and synthetic holdings; similarly, municipal bonds, commodities, real estate, and alternative investment types are not considered corporate or sovereign and are not currently eligible to contribute toward the overall rating.

Morningstar® Portfolio Sustainability Scores 

The Morningstar Sustainability Rating framework, which was historically based on a single sustainability score, is now a modular approach, based on multiple sustainability sleeve scores to provide a more comprehensive assessment of ESG risk through multiple lenses. Morningstar determines whether a fund’s eligible portfolio holdings can be classified under a Corporate or Sovereign framework, and each holding can only contribute to one, not both.  In some cases, only one of the corporate and sovereign scores is calculated because the fund’s portfolio does not have sufficient sovereign or corporate exposure within its holdings.

The Morningstar® Portfolio Corporate Sustainability ScoreTM is an asset-weighted average of Sustainalytics’ ESG Risk Ratings* for corporate issuers in a fund’s portfolio, based on 12-month historical holdings, updated monthly. The Sustainalytics’ ESG Risk Rating measures the degree to which a company’s economic value may be at risk driven by ESG factors. To receive a Portfolio Corporate Sustainability Score, at least 67% of a fund’s corporate issuer holdings (long positions only) must have an ESG Risk Rating. The Portfolio Corporate Sustainability Score ranges between 0 to 100, with a higher score indicating that a fund has, on average, more of its assets invested in companies with high ESG risk. A fund with a lower score indicates lower ESG risk.  

The Morningstar® Portfolio Sovereign Sustainability ScoreTM is an asset-weighted average of Sustainalytics’ Country Risk Ratings* for sovereign issuers in a fund’s portfolio, based on 12-month historical holdings, updated monthly. The Sustainalytics’ Country Risk Rating measures the risk to a country’s long-term prosperity and economic development by assessing its wealth and its ability to managing its wealth sustainably. To receive a Portfolio Sovereign Sustainability Score, at least 67% of a fund’s sovereign issuer holdings (long only) must have a Country Risk Rating. The Portfolio Sovereign Sustainability Score ranges between 0 to 100, with a higher score indicating that a fund has, on average, more of its assets invested in sovereign issuers with high ESG risk. A fund with a lower score indicates lower ESG risk.  

The Morningstar® Sustainability Pillar Scores are provided to help investors understand the contribution of each to a fund’s overall ESG risk, as it breaks out the Portfolio Corporate Sustainability Score for a fund into separate Environmental, Social, Governance and Unallocated ESG Risk pillars.  It is based on Sustainalytics’ ESG Risk Ratings for corporate issuer securities, shown as a percentage of total, and is updated monthly. 

* The rating methodology employed by Sustainalytics can be found on their website or by clicking on the following links: ESG Risk Ratings Methodology Abstract or Country Risk Rating.

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The Morningstar® Low Carbon Designation™ is intended to allow investors to easily identify low-carbon funds across the global universe, and is calculated monthly. The designation is an indicator that the companies held in a fund’s portfolio are in general alignment with the transition to a low-carbon economy, and have low carbon risk scores and low levels of fossil fuel exposure. 

The Low Carbon Designation is assigned to funds with a Historical Carbon Risk Score below 10 and a Historical Fossil Fuel Percentage of Covered Portfolio Involved of less than 7%.  For a fund to receive a Historical Carbon Risk Score and the Historical Fossil Fuel Percentage of Covered Portfolio Involved, the percentage of eligible portfolio covered must meet or exceed 67%, respectively.

To determine Carbon Risk Scores and Fossil Fuel Involvement, Morningstar uses Sustainalytics’ company-level data, based on the 12-month historical weighted averages. The Historical Carbon Risk Score measures the degree of material financial risk within a fund’s portfolio, calculated based on the underlying companies’ exposure to and management of material carbon issues. The Historical Fossil Fuel Involvement measures the percentage of a fund’s covered portfolio that is exposed to corporations that generate any revenue from involvement in fossil fuels. 

Portfolio Carbon Risk Score measures of the degree of material financial risk posed by the transition to a low carbon economy, and was designed to support investors in evaluating the degree of carbon-related risk within the fund. It is an asset-weighted score based on Sustainalytics’ Carbon Risk Rating* of the net long positions in companies held in the fund’s portfolio, calculated monthly, based on the most recent 12-month trailing average. The Sustainalytics’ Carbon Risk Rating measures the degree to which a company’s enterprise value is at risk, driven by factors related to the transition to a low carbon economy, or more technically speaking, the magnitude of a company’s unmanaged carbon risks. A company’s ability to reduce emissions and mitigate carbon risk using various management strategies is deducted from their overall carbon risk exposure score. A lower overall Portfolio Carbon Risk Score means lower carbon risk. The Portfolio Carbon Risk Score is ranked from 0 (Low) to 50+ (Severe).

Portfolio Fossil Fuel Involvement measures a portfolio’s exposure to companies involved in high-impact and conventional fossil fuels and is designed to highlight the percentage to which a fund’s portfolio is exposed to this most significant carbon risk, calculated monthly, based on the most recent 12-month trailing average. The Sustainalytics’ Fossil Fuels Involvement* examines a company’s involvement in conventional fossil fuels, such as thermal coal and oil & gas, as well as high-impact fossil fuels including oil sands, oil shale and arctic oil and gas. The Portfolio Fossil Fuel Involvement is shown as a percentage out of 100%, based on a rescaled, adjusted eligible portfolio of long positions less short positions.

Fund’s Distribution of Carbon Risk shows the percent of the fund’s portfolio holdings with negligible, low, medium, high, or severe Carbon Risk Score as calculated by Sustainalytics, shown as a percentage of the fund’s total Portfolio Carbon Risk Score, calculated monthly, based on the most recent 12-month trailing average.

* The rating methodology employed by Sustainalytics can be found on their website or by clicking on the following links: Carbon Risk Ratings and Research

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