OP-World Index

OP-World Index invests its assets globally in advanced markets and the investor's portfolio will thereby get a solid base steadily following global economic prospects. OP-World Index suits investors hunting for high returns, but it also requires risk tolerance and willingness to follow market events and manage the investment accordingly. Here the portfolio manager's role mainly consists of cost-efficient execution of the fund according to the index. 

OP-World Index offers a good diversification method for anyone's investment portfolio. Thanks to their low fees and high expected return in the long term, index funds can well complement other investments in the portfolio of, say, a long-term saver or pension saver. OP-World Index is recommended primarily in a situation where redemption of units would occur after seven years at the earliest.

OP-World Index is a passive index fund that invests assets according to the MSCI World ESG Screened Index in large listed companies diversified on a global basis. This means that the fund’s investments are split between the countries and businesses of the benchmark index in the same proportion as in the index.

Since the fund aims to generate the same returns as the benchmark index, it only keeps a small portion in cash for the purposes of redemptions. In order to lower its trading needs arising from redemptions and subscriptions, the fund may to a
limited extent use derivative instruments in portfolio management.

Since the fund’s assets are invested in large-cap stocks, its investments can be highly concentrated on certain sectors, such as finance and industry.

The Fund’s trading costs are relatively low as changes to the portfolio are basically only made in conjunction with index adjustments.

The Fund is a passive index fund. It promotes environmental and social characteristics by using an index based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis while excluding certain investments. 

Negative screening: As the Fund is a passive index fund, the Fund manager cannot make individual exclusion decisions. The Fund is based on an index which excludes companies with connections to the production of controversial weapons. The index also excludes companies which have violated international standards (UN Global Compact and OECD guidelines for multinationals) and companies which have committed very severe ESG violations.

Use of ESG data in the investment analysis: The benchmark index considers companies’ ESG rating and emphasises companies with better ESG ratings.

Shareholders’ meetings: The Fund votes in shareholders’ meetings through a service provider in line with OP Fund Management Company Ltd’s shareholder engagement principles that take responsibility aspects into account.

Assessing good governance: The Fund is based on the MSCI ESG Universal Index, using both the MSCI ESG Rating and the MSCI ESG Rating Trend data and gives weight to those companies with better ratings. The level of corporate governance is included in the ESG Rating.