T. Rowe Price drops 'responsible' label from 26 funds

Within SICAV range

Elliot Gulliver-Needham
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T. Rowe Price has removed the ‘responsible’ label from 26 funds within its SICAV range.

A spokesperson for T Rowe Price told Investment Week the firm had reclassified 26 funds from Article 6 to Article 8 under SFDR from 1 October. The name change was done to "better align with the market standards for funds classified as Article 8", the spokesperson said. With 50 Article 8 funds as part of its range, the change now classifies 79% of the firm's SICAVs as Article 8, compared to 15 Article 6 funds and one Article 9 fund. Aviva and LGIM among firms calling for gender-smart climate finance at COP27 The new Article 8 funds have now formally committed to investing at leas...

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