Better Health for All

Ninety One's core business as an asset management firm means its principal goods and services are financial, having no direct positive or negative health impact, resulting in a neutral score for health_impact_core. The company implements exclusion policies that include tobacco, ensuring its managed investment portfolios do not contain products with significant negative health outcomes, which aligns with a positive score for harmful_revenue_share.

For all other KPIs, the company's operations do not directly involve health-related products, services, or activities, making them not applicable, or the provided evidence is too general to meet the specific quantitative thresholds of the rubric.

Fair Pay & Worker Respect

N91.LSE reported an employee engagement score of 88% in 2023.

The company's employee turnover rate was 10% in 2023.

No War, No Weapons

The company has a firmwide controversial-weapons exclusion policy, committing not to invest in companies directly involved in the manufacture and production of cluster munitions, antipersonnel landmines, and biological and chemical weapons.

This policy serves as a formal divestment strategy for these specific conflict exposures.

Planet-Friendly Business

Ninety One, as a pure services provider, reported Scope 3 emissions (business travel) of 6,694 tCO2e in financial year 2024.

The company states it is carbon neutral for Scope 1, 2, and 3 (Category 6) through a partnership with BioCarbon Partners. Ninety One formally pledged its support for the TCFD in September 2018. The company conducts an analysis of climate risk impacts using three TCFD scenarios, based on IPCC GHG emissions pathways and inferred carbon prices, at both firm and fund levels. Regarding climate justice, Ninety One focuses on a "fair and inclusive way, particularly in emerging markets" for the transition to a sustainable net-zero future.

Safe & Smart Tech

Ninety One has no documented data breaches and states there are no material legal or disciplinary events to report.

The company outlines a comprehensive set of user data rights, including access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, and data portability. It explicitly states its commitment to incorporating data protection by design principles and ensuring team leaders are responsible for designing processes with policy rules. The firm demonstrates strong regulatory compliance, adhering to multiple regulations across various jurisdictions (e.g., SEC, FCA, FSCA, SFC, MAS) with no reported material violations. However, the company's data retention policy allows for keeping client data for up to an additional 10 years after the client relationship ends. Furthermore, the company acknowledges potential difficulty in understanding and controlling the decision-making process of its machine learning models used in the 4Factor strategy.