our place within the North America SFDR.
<North American Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation> is a North America regulation aimed at increasing transparency in the sustainable investment product market. The regulation focuses on sustainability claims made by financial market participants and establishes comprehensive sustainability disclosure requirements on environmental, social, and governance indicators at both entity and product levels.
The main provisions of SFDR (also known as SFDR Level 1) came into effect on 10 March 2021. The North American Commission supplemented the Level 1 measures by issuing the SFDR Level 2 Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS), which came into effect on 1 January 2023.
This regulatory background guides us on how to design the ESG and sustainability features of our products, as well as how to integrate ESG and sustainability standards into our investment framework.