Jantzi Social Index November 2022 Total Returns

Toronto, ON -- December 15, 2022 -- Morningstar Sustainalytics, a leading global provider of ESG and corporate governance research, ratings and analytics, today reported that the Jantzi Social Index® (JSI) increased in value by 5.76 percent during the month of November. During the same period, the S&P/TSX Composite Index increased by 5.54 percent and the S&P/TSX 60 Index increased by 5.60 percent. Since inception on January 1, 2000, through November 30, 2022, the JSI has achieved an annualized return of 6.95 percent, while the S&P/TSX Composite and the S&P/TSX 60 had annualized returns of 6.68 percent and 6.81 percent respectively, over the same period.

Total Returns	Oct	3 mths	1 yr	3 yr	5 yr	10 yr	Inception Annualized	Inception Cumulative*
JSI	5.76%	10.71%	4.03%	9.24%	7.74%	9.08%	6.95%	366.59%
S&P/TSX Composite	5.54%	6.68%	2.04%	9.52%	8.18%	8.49%	6.68%	339.82%
S&P/TSX 60	5.60%	7.23%	2.49%	10.21%	8.83%	9.17%	6.81%	353.03%

*Cumulative since 01/01/2000

Sector Contributions

In November 2022, the sector that made the largest positive contribution to the performance of the JSI was the Financials sector with 177.37 basis points. The sector that made the largest negative contribution to the performance of the index was the Energy sector with -23.65 basis points..

Company Contributions

In November 2022, Royal Bank of Canada was the largest positive contributor to the performance of the JSI with 83.92 basis points. Suncor Energy Inc was the largest negative contributor to the performance of the index with -26.54 basis points.

TOP POSITIVE CONTRIBUTIONS	BASIS POINTS CONTRIBUTED
Royal Bank of Canada	83.92
Shopify Inc.	77.44
Canadian National Railways	53.95

TOP NEGATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS	BASIS POINTS CONTRIBUTED
Suncor Energy Inc.	-26.54
Canadian Natural Resources Limited	-10.62
Cenovus Energy Inc.	-7.77

Launched in 2000, the JSI is a free-float market capitalization-weighted common stock index consisting of 50 Canadian companies that pass a set of broadly based ESG rating criteria. In creating the JSI, Jantzi Research, now Morningstar Sustainalytics, set out to create an index which could be used by institutional investors in benchmarking the performance of socially-screened portfolios and by financial institutions in developing investment products such as index mutual funds, exchange traded funds, index portfolios, index futures and options. The JSI’s underlying universe is the TSX Composite Index.

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