The fund selects companies from developed markets that meet certain ESG characteristics while maintaining the same risk and return as the index. The index is a composite of three ESG sub-indexes that hold large- and mid-cap securities from developed markets in Europe, Mid-East and Africa, and Asia-Pacific ex-South Korea. Each sub-index applies an exclusionary screening based on an ESG risk rating by Sustainalytics, a UNGC score by Arabesque, and an S&P DJI ESG Score by SAM. A company is excluded if it is involved in tobacco, thermal coal, and controversial weapons, has a UNGC score in the bottom 5% of all UNGC-scored companies globally, or has an S&P DJI ESG score within the worst 25% of each GICS industry group. The remaining companies are ranked in descending order of their S&P DJI ESG score, with the top 75% of market capitalization within each industry group selected. The resulting components are combined to form the index. The index rebalances and reconstitutes annually.