Ninety One Funds Series iii - Global Environment Fund J GBP Acc

Lead fund manager biography

Deirdre is Head of Sustainable Equity at Ninety One. Deirdre is a leading voice in understanding and committing to sustainable investing, particularly investment to address and combat climate change. Ninety One’s Global Environment Strategy, which she co-manages, invests in companies enabling the transition to a low-carbon economy to capture the structural growth driven by decarbonization. Prior to joining Ninety One in 2018, Deirdre was a Partner, Portfolio Manager and Head of Research at Ecofin. Before joining Ecofin, Deirdre was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley where she headed their European Renewable Energy coverage effort and built an investment banking and principal investing franchise. She has long had a passion for sustainable investing and has worked on a voluntary basis in the microfinance sector both in the US and in Pakistan. She is a member of the advisory board for Imperial College’s Centre for Climate Finance and Investment. She is a peer reviewer for the IEA’s World Energy Outlook. Deirdre earned her MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar, and her BA in Actuarial Science from University College Dublin.

Lead fund manager biography

Graeme is a portfolio manager in the Sustainable Equity team at Ninety One. Graeme is co-portfolio manager for the Global Environment strategy. He joined the team in 2010. During this time, he has been instrumental in driving the team’s work on the Energy Transition and co-authored the 2016 paper on the subject; “Our energy future: creating a sustainable global energy system”. This work has provided the base for the team’s investment process and philosophy around the process of Sustainable Decarbonisation. Prior to joining the firm, Graeme worked as an investment analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management where he focused on Alternatives and Global Equities. Graeme received a BSc in Economics from the University of Bristol and is a CFA® Charterholder, a member of the CFA® Society of the UK and holds the Investment Management Certificate (IMC).