Sphere 500 Climate Fund
Shareclass
Sphere 500 Climate Fund (SPFFX)
Type
Open-end mutual fund
Manager
Gender equality score
55
/ 100 points
Overall score
Average Equileap Gender Equality Score of fund holdings, weighted by market value
Group ranking
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Group: U.S. Equity Fund
Ranking: 437 out of 2,531 funds
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Gender balance in leadership and workforce
27/40
Equal compensation and work life balance
9/30
Policies promoting gender equality
19/20
Commitment, transparency, and accountability
1/10

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Sphere 500 Climate Fund SPFFX
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This fund is a member of a sustainable and responsible investing group, and has a posted policy on their consideration of diversity and equal employment opportunity policies and practices relating to employees, company ownership or contractors.
Does not screen investments on diversity and equal employment opportunity policies. More
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Top scoring holdings
The top 10 holdings in this portfolio with the best scores on the Equileap Gender Scorecard. In the case of ties, the holding with more assets invested is listed higher.
- 1. International Flavors & Fragrances Inc0.05% of assets$7,240 invested
- 2. Procter & Gamble Co1.01% of assets$136,482 invested
- 3. Marriott International Inc Class A0.13% of assets$17,402 invested
- 4. Biogen Inc0.06% of assets$8,335 invested
- 5. Boston Scientific Corp0.27% of assets$36,956 invested
- 6. Welltower Inc0.17% of assets$23,429 invested
- 7. Mastercard Inc Class A1.01% of assets$136,289 invested
- 8. Bank of America Corp0.76% of assets$103,208 invested
- 9. Citigroup Inc0.26% of assets$35,807 invested
- 10. General Mills Inc0.09% of assets$12,333 invested
Bottom scoring holdings
The bottom 10 holdings in this portfolio with the worst scores on the Equileap Gender Scorecard. In the case of ties, the holding with more assets invested is listed higher.
- 1. Loews Corp0.03% of assets$4,269 invested
- 2. Carvana Co Class A0.04% of assets$5,572 invested
- 3. Roblox Corp Ordinary Shares - Class A0.05% of assets$6,728 invested
- 4. Vaxcyte Inc Ordinary Shares0.03% of assets$3,885 invested
- 5. Lennar Corp Class A0.1% of assets$13,311 invested
- 6. Rollins Inc0.03% of assets$4,400 invested
- 7. MicroStrategy Inc Class A0.06% of assets$8,767 invested
- 8. Markel Group Inc0.03% of assets$4,706 invested
- 9. PACCAR Inc0.11% of assets$15,295 invested
- 10. Old Dominion Freight Line Inc Ordinary Shares0.08% of assets$10,925 invested
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Gender Equality and Returns

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The figure above charts annualized returns and Gender Equality Fund grades. The orange marker represents this fund. The purple marker (if present) represents an assigned benchmark. Blue dots represent funds in the same Morningstar category as this fund. Dark gray dots represent funds in the same grading group as this fund. Returns are for the most recent available for this fund of 1, 3, 5, or 10 year annualized returns. The higher a fund is marked on the Y axis, the better its returns for the specified time period. The higher a fund is marked on the X axis, the better its Gender Equality Funds group ranking. Read more on the How it Works page.
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