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Putting Environment and People before Profit: The TAHITO Te Tai o Rehua is a a Māori indigenous values-led ethical and sustainable Australasian equities fund for investors who want competitive market returns but equally would like to see their capital applied to a high ethical standard and in investments that are making a positive social and environmental impact.
TAHITO Te Tai o Rehua provides a holistic accountability on wellbeing using ethical and sustainable screens derived from Māori indigenous values. Māori values and ethics place people and the environment in high priority. This thinking is derived from the ancestral Māori worldview, which can be described as a holistic socio-ecological system that centres on the connection and interrelationship of all things The process is call ‘Te Kōwhiringa Tapu' which translates to ‘Careful Selection’.
Te Kōwhiringa Tapu investment process integrates ESG on a values basis and applies a positive scoring system. The fund measures ‘Aroha Connection’, because the stronger the Aroha the better the Mauri. We are effectively measuring ‘behaviour change', the transition of companies from the ‘substantive’, internally focused, very self-absorbed behaviours, to the ideal ‘relational’, externally connected, collective behaviours. This requires ethically strong and committed governance with a clear drive toward long-term sustainability to enhance financial returns.
