MDT Finance is a global systematic investment manager. Our centralized research focuses on the development of advanced quantitative techniques for uncovering market opportunities and employs them within a disciplined framework that results in efficient exposures.
With a robust infrastructure and talented investment professionals, MDT Finance offers clients the scale of a large asset management firm, with the benefits of a versatile investment platform – flexibility and customization. Our firm is able to offer institutional and retail investors the essential building blocks for today's changing investment landscape.
This means supporting our colleagues, customers and clients, and the communities and environment in which they operate, for the benefit of all our stakeholders. It means helping people and businesses unlock their potential and plan for the future with confidence, building relationships that stand the test of time. And it means that we continue to be there for the long-term, whatever the climate, making decisions that are right for today and for generations to come.
To achieve this, our long-term strategic approach place exceptional service at the heart of everything we do. Each of our diverse, specialist businesses have a deep industry knowledge, so they can understand the challenges and opportunities that our customers and clients face. We support the unique needs of our customers and clients to ensure that they thrive, rather than simply survive, whatever the market conditions.
We believe in putting our customers and clients first. Our cultural attributes bring out the very best of our people, skills and strong reputation that we have built with our stakeholders over many years. A combination of expertise, service and relationships with teamwork, integrity and prudence underpins our approach and gives us the tools to thrive over the long term.
And we recognise that to help the people and businesses of Britain thrive, we also have a responsibility to help address the social, economic and environmental challenges facing our business, employees and clients, now and into the future.
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Once we have a full understanding of what you would like to achieve, we will assess if you are currently on track to achieve your goals.
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We approach sustainability from three perspectives: an asset owner, an asset manager, and as a company in our own right
While our responsibilities and obligations in each of these three roles may differ, as we discuss below, our approach in all three is united by a common set of principles and ambitions, set out in the box at the bottom of the page.
We serve as an asset owner on behalf of Prudential With-Profits policyholders, and our pensions and annuity customers. This means we make decisions about how to allocate money to different asset classes and which asset manager should manage our money.
We also have the important responsibility of deciding the financial outcomes we want our asset managers to deliver for us, and the sustainability considerations we require them to apply.
For example, if we think that a certain industry does not have a sustainable future, we may require that the asset manager does not invest in that industry. Our responsibility as an asset owner is to create the best customer outcome in terms of general well-being in line with our fiduciary duty, taking into consideration financial security. We also invest as an asset manager on behalf of individual savers and asset owner clients. As at 31 December 2020, we manage over £233.4 billion for external clients and £133.8 billion on behalf of our internal client.
As an asset manager, we must aim to deliver the financial outcomes and any sustainability requirements set out in the objectives of each of our mutual funds, or in the mandates we receive from institutional clients. Sometimes there may be differences in the sustainability criteria that external clients mandate, and in turn these may differ from the requirements of our internal client. While our values of care and integrity inform all our sustainability work, the asset manager and asset owner are separately regulated businesses with independent Boards and governance processes, and their policies may diverge on occasion.
We will consider sustainability and ESG factors when determining our corporate strategy and new business initiatives.
We will embed sustainability considerations throughout our business.
We aspire to be a thought leader, to innovate, and to advance understanding of sustainability issues.
We believe in active asset ownership and management which encourages companies to transition towards a sustainable future.
We consider the interests of all our stakeholders and ensure our views on sustainability are consistent with our longterm approach.
We will manage our businesses to the same principles of acting responsibly that we hold our investee companies to account on.
We review our sustainability thinking regularly in order to align with scientific and technological improvements, and changes in the global economy, ethics and consumer preferences.
We aim to use our influence as a global investor and asset owner to drive positive change in sustainability policy and corporate standards.
MDT Finance is a tightly knit group working together with management teams toward common goals. We have more than 70 investment professionals, including 24 partners with an average tenure at MDT Finance of more than a decade. This allows us to devote substantial time to the companies in which we invest.
Our objective is to work with portfolio company leadership and create a backdrop in which companies can thrive. We encourage management teams to invest alongside us, and our forward-thinking approach and philosophy to leave companies better than when we found them also means that portfolio company employees often choose to invest alongside MDT Finance as well.
We believe that people thrive when they are working toward a common and focused goal. We are proud of our transparency and alignment of interest with our portfolio companies and investors. We believe our focus and significant skin in the game allows us to build true, successful partnerships.