The assessment examines companies based on environmental social and corporate governance factors (ESG factors), which serve as the primary basis for determining a company's level of sustainability and subsequent global impact.

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One technique that the Fund employs is that it invests with other established SRI funds which use environmental Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) to positive screen and actively look for companies that conduct business in desirable fields such as solar energy companies.

As a result of that shareholder vote, the management company and Board of Trustees of the Pax World Funds worked together to update the investment approach to focus on the integration of Environmental Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) factors into investment analysis and portfolio construction.