ESG

Sustainability Approach

Our Private Credit team's approach to ESG strives to reflect material economic and financial risks and opportunities presented by ESG factors as a component of the overall investment theses.

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Overview

Strategy

For more than 75 years, our private credit investment approach has been defined by thoughtful analysis, long-term thinking and strong relationships. We believe that integrating environmental, social and governance factors into this approach is a necessary part of successful long-term investing. Considering relevant environmental, social and governance factors in our investment process is a fundamental part of generating attractive risk adjusted returns for our clients. Our long history investing in the renewable energy, education, and transportation infrastructure sectors (among others) has been underpinned by thoughtful consideration.

Consideration of Financially Material Sustainability Factors

Considering a wide range of financially material factors is inherent to our investment process. As a long-term investor, our expected holding period for many investments is ten years or more, and we have had the good fortune of maintaining continuous investment relationships with many businesses and institutions extending over several decades. This has required an investment approach oriented around sustainable practices. Our approach strives to fully reflect risks and opportunities presented by material environmental, social and governance factors as a component of our overall investment thesis. At all stages of our investment process we strive to explicitly identify, analyze, and mitigate relevant sustainability factors and risks.

Environmental, social and governance factors are a component of our comprehensive investment analysis. Specifically, our investment teams explicitly analyze the following factors¹:

Environmental

Climate Regulation
Climate Change
Habitat
Sustainability

Social

Workplace Safety
Product Safety
Health & Wellness
Stakeholder Engagement

Governance

Board Composition
Succession Planning
Data Security
Labor Relations

While we have identified these specific factors based on our investment experience, our investment teams are responsible for identifying and analyzing all material risks and considerations that may apply to individual investments or strategies.

Engagement

Regular engagement with companies in our investment portfolios, including dialogue related to sustainability factors, has always been a critical part of our investment process. As a relationship-based investor, we strive to cultivate active dialogue with the companies and institutions in which we invest and meet face-to-face with many companies several times each year.

Responsibility for Sustainability

PGIM's private credit investment teams are responsible for explicitly identifying and analyzing material environmental, social and governance factors as a component of the overall investment process. Our responsible investment objectives are set and overseen by the ESG Committee, which is comprised of our senior leaders. We provide ongoing training on sustainability topics to all investment staff.

SFDR Note: PGIM Private Capital (Ireland) Limited (“PPC Ireland”) is part of the PGIM Private Capital group. PGIM Private Capital is the private credit arm of PGIM, Inc. The EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (“SFDR”) requires PPC Ireland to formalize how sustainability is integrated into our business and processes, and to make new public and client-facing disclosures on sustainability matters. This PGIM Private Capital ESG Statement is a summary of PPC Ireland’s Sustainability Risks Policy for purposes of the SFDR.

¹For certain strategies where PPC has been unable to source ESG data directly from the issuer, we may rely on ESG data and/or analysis provided by third-parties and affiliates.

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