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Christian Brothers Investment Services, Inc.

PRI reporting framework 2019

Asset class implementation gateway indicators [OO 10 - 12] Peering questions [OO LE 01 - HF 01]

Investment policy [SG 01 - 04] Objectives and strategies [SG 05 - 06] Governance and human resources [SG 07 - 08] Promoting responsible investment [SG 09 - 11] Outsourcing to fiduciary managers and investment consultants [SG 12] ESG issues in asset allocation [SG 13 - 15] Innovation [SG 18] Communication [SG 19]

Indirect – Manager Selection, Appointment and Monitoring

Listed Equity and Fixed Income Strategies [SAM 01] Selection [SAM 02 - 03] Appointment [SAM 04] Monitoring [SAM 05 - 07] Outputs and outcomes [SAM 08 - 09]

Direct - Listed Equity Active Ownership

Overview [LEA 01] Engagement [LEA 02 - 08] Outputs and outcomes [LEA 09 - 11] (Proxy) voting and shareholder resolutions [LEA 12 - 21]

Confidence building measures

Confidence building measures [CM1 01 - 07]

Export Public Responses

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Basic information

OO 01. Signatory category and services

01.1. Select the services and funds you offer

Select the services and funds you offer	% of asset under management (AUM) in ranges
Fund management	0% <10% 10-50% >50%
Fund of funds, manager of managers, sub-advised products	0% <10% 10-50% >50%
Other	0% <10% 10-50% >50%
Total 100%

Further options (may be selected in addition to the above)

Hedge funds

Fund of hedge funds

01.2. Additional information. [Optional]

While our funds are all externally managed, we do our own screening research and supply managers with the securities to be screened across all funds. We also provide some select services to a small number of separately managed accounts.

OO 02. Headquarters and operational countries

02.1. Select the location of your organisation’s headquarters.

United States

02.2. Indicate the number of countries in which you have offices (including your headquarters).

2-5

6-10

>10

02.3. Indicate the approximate number of staff in your organisation in full-time equivalents (FTE).

46 FTE

02.4. Additional information. [Optional]

Christian Brothers Investment Services, Inc. (“CBIS”) is a for-profit, SEC-registered investment adviser founded in 1981 and owned by the De La Salle Christian Brothers, a religious teaching congregation within the Catholic Church. The firm is incorporated in the United States in the state of Illinois and has offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco; its subsidiary, CBIS Global S.r.L., has an office in Rome, and staffing in Spain.

CBIS is a manager of managers: that is, we engage third-party institutional investment firms to actively sub-advise the assets in our portfolios. We offer two product lines: Catholic United Investment Trust (CUIT) and CBIS Global Funds plc, for Catholic institutions in select countries around the world.

CUIT was founded in 1983 as a not-for-profit trust with an independent Board of Trustees. In 2012, it was re-organized as a Delaware statutory trust and merged with the Religious Communities Trust. Investment in any CUIT Fund is restricted to United States-domiciled Catholic institutions listed or eligible to be listed in the Kenedy Official Catholic Directory.

CBIS Global Funds plc is an umbrella fund with segregated liability between sub-funds pursuant to the European Communities (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) Regulations, 2011 (as amended), established as an open-ended, variable capital investment company incorporated as a public limited company under the laws in Ireland. CBIS Global Funds plc is offered primarily to Catholic institutional investors outside of the United States, and is overseen by an independent Board of Directors.

CBIS has two wholly-owned subsidiaries, CBIS Financial Services, Inc. and CBIS Global S.r.L.

CBIS Financial Services, Inc. is a broker-dealer and FINRA member that primarily acts in that capacity in connection with the offer and sale of interests in CUIT.

CBIS Global S.r.L. is headquartered in Rome, Italy. CBIS Global S.r.L. provides services to the investors in CBIS Global Funds plc.

As of December 31, 2018, CBIS, including its subsidiaries, had total staffing of 46 full-time equivalent individuals. This number included 44 CBIS employees (of which 4 worked for subsidiary CBIS Global S.r.L.), 2 were full-time consultants, and there were 0 vacant positions.

OO 03. Subsidiaries that are separate PRI signatories

03.1. Indicate whether you have subsidiaries within your organisation that are also PRI signatories in their own right.

Yes

03.3. Additional information. [Optional]

OO 04. Reporting year and AUM

04.1. Indicate the year end date for your reporting year.

31/12/2018

04.2. Indicate your total AUM at the end of your reporting year.

Include the AUM of subsidiaries, but exclude advisory/execution only assets, and exclude the assets of your PRI signatory subsidiaries that you have chosen not to report on in OO 03.2

Total AUM
Total AUM	trillions	billions	millions	thousands	hundreds
Currency
Assets in USD
Assets in USD	trillions	billions	millions	thousands	hundreds

Not applicable as we are in the fund-raising process

04.4. Indicate the total assets at the end of your reporting year subject to an execution and/or advisory approach.

Not applicable as we do not have any assets under execution and/or advisory approach

04.5. Additional information. [Optional]

CBIS manages approx $6.87 billion USD in assets for more than 600 Catholic organizations worldwide.

CBIS does not currently have assets that are advisory in nature, but $553.4 million USD were in Separately Managed Accounts at year-end 2018.

OO 06. How would you like to disclose your asset class mix

06.1. Select how you would like to disclose your asset class mix.

as percentage breakdown

	Internally managed (%)	Externally managed (%)
Listed equity	0 0	>50% 65
Fixed income	0 0	10-50% 34
Private equity	0 0	0 0
Property	0 0	0 0
Infrastructure	0 0	0 0
Commodities	0 0	0 0
Hedge funds	0 0	0 0
Fund of hedge funds	0 0	0 0
Forestry	0 0	0 0
Farmland	0 0	0 0
Inclusive finance	0 0	0 0
Cash	0 0	0 0
Money market instruments	0 0	<10% 1
Other (1), specify	0 0	0 0
Other (2), specify	0 0	0 0

as broad ranges

06.2. Publish asset class mix as per attached image [Optional].

06.3. Indicate whether your organisation has any off-balance sheet assets [Optional].

Yes

06.5. Indicate whether your organisation uses fiduciary managers.

Yes, we use a fiduciary manager and our response to OO 5.1 is reflective of their management of our assets.

No, we do not use fiduciary managers.

06.6. Provide contextual information on your AUM asset class split. [Optional]

OO 07. Fixed income AUM breakdown

07.1. Provide to the nearest 5% the percentage breakdown of your Fixed Income AUM at the end of your reporting year, using the following categories.

Externally managed

40 SSA

15 Corporate (financial)

20 Corporate (non-financial)

25 Securitised

Total 100%

OO 08. Segregated mandates or pooled funds

New selection options have been added to this indicator. Please review your prefilled responses carefully.

Provide a breakdown of your organisation’s externally managed assets between segregated mandates and pooled funds or investments.

Asset class breakdown	Segregated mandate(s)	Pooled fund(s) or pooled investment(s)	Total of the asset class (each row adds up to 100%)
[a] Listed equity	0% <10% 10-50% >50 %	0% <10% 10-50% >50 %	100%
[b] Fixed income - SSA	0% <10% 10-50% >50 %	0% <10% 10-50% >50 %	100%
[c] Fixed income – Corporate (financial)	0% <10% 10-50% >50 %	0% <10% 10-50% >50 %	100%
[d] Fixed income – Corporate (non-financial)	0% <10% 10-50% >50 %	0% <10% 10-50% >50 %	100%
[e] Fixed income – Securitised	0% <10% 10-50% >50 %	0% <10% 10-50% >50 %	100%
[o] Money market instruments	0% <10% 10-50% >50 %	0% <10% 10-50% >50 %	100%

08.2. Additional information. [Optional]

OO 09. Breakdown of AUM by market

09.1. Indicate the breakdown of your organisation’s AUM by market.

97 Developed Markets

3 Emerging Markets

0 Frontier Markets

0 Other Markets

Total 100% 100%

09.2. Additional information. [Optional]

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