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Long-term Risk Management
Capital Preservation and Growth

Real risks related to climate change, resource degradation and scarcity, and widening inequality are rapidly materializing

Innovative companies addressing systemic risks are leading long-term economic growth

Investing in those companies is our best opportunity to preserve and grow clients’ capital

Why Green Alpha? Portfolio Options

Investment Process

Because our team begins the investment process by examining economic risks and opportunities at a systemic level, the Next Economy™ investment methodology is unconstrained. We search for companies that own the smartest intellectual property and are tackling major risks – selecting innovators and sustainability drivers wherever they can be found.

How?

65

Years
Experience Investing

0

Style Drift

541%

Assets Under Management Growth
(12/31/14 to 12/31/19)

2002

Investing Fossil Fuel Free Since

Our Portfolios

Next Economy Index

Active research and stock selection, paired with passive portfolio management via an annual rebalance

The Social Index

Uniquely rigorous gender and social inclusion criteria applied to Next Economy candidates to maximize each company’s cognitive power, execution, and risk management potential

Sierra Club® Green Alpha

Green Alpha’s first-principles, forward-looking research, and the Sierra Club’s social and environmental criteria applied to each company’s history

Growth & Income

Powerful combination of growth, high current income, and relatively low volatility

Next Economy Select

Our lowest minimum account size vehicle, invested in high conviction companies bought at compelling current valuations

Investment Options

“We invest in companies enabling the global economy to continue innovating and increasing efficiencies indefinitely, without overtopping planetary tolerances.”
Green Alpha Advisors

Thought Leadership

  • To Thrive Long Term, an Economy must be Built (or Rebuilt) on Four Pillars of Sustainability

    To Thrive Long Term, an Economy must be Built (or Rebuilt) on Four Pillars of Sustainability

    July 9, 2020
    The first half of 2020 was a unique time in the markets and in the global economy. While the economy as a whole is struggling to adapt and transition to new realities, those companies that were already pursuing solutions to systemic risks – including, but not limited to, pandemics – …Read More »
  • A big wince as Trump’s DOL presses efforts to erase Obama-era ESG guidance, with tough new rule to curb do-good funds in ERISA accounts; critics cry ‘politics’ ~ RIABiz

    A big wince as Trump’s DOL presses efforts to erase Obama-era ESG guidance, with tough new rule to curb do-good funds in ERISA accounts; critics cry ‘politics’ ~ RIABiz

    July 2, 2020
    The below-included article contains a partial quote from our COO, Betsy Moszeter. Betsy’s full comment is followed by the text of the RIABiz article. “The DOL’s proposal references their longstanding position that fiduciaries must take into account ‘the risk-adjusted economic value of a particular investment or course of action,’ but …Read More »
  • Inequality as a Systemic Risk ~ White Paper

    Inequality as a Systemic Risk ~ White Paper

    September 18, 2018
    Inequality as a Systemic Risk — The threat, its causes and potential solutions Read the White Paper Time and again, history has demonstrated that extreme levels of inequality can undermine a civilization’s ability to thrive—even shattering society itself. Today, the United States faces extreme levels of inequality that pose clear …Read More »

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Shock and Awe

WHO / UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP)

"2.6 billion people or 39 percent of the world’s population live without access to improved sanitation."

WHO / UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP)

World Water Development Report, UNESCO

"The cost of adapting to the impacts of a 2°C rise in global average temperature could range from US$70 to $100 billion per year between 2020 and 2050."

World Water Development Report, UNESCO

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, United Nations

"Over 90 percent probability that human activities over the past 250 years have warmed our planet."

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, United Nations

USAID Water and Development Strategy

"Projections are that by 2025, two thirds of the world’s population could be living in severe water stress conditions."

USAID Water and Development Strategy

WHO / UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme

"1 in 8 people world wide do not have access to safe and clean drinking water."

WHO / UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme

Lester Brown, The Guardian

"The world has quietly transitioned into a situation where water, not land, has emerged as the principal constraint on expanding food supplies."

Lester Brown, The Guardian

International Energy Agency (IEA)

"If the world waits until 2020 to take action on global climate change, it will undoubtedly be too late."

International Energy Agency (IEA)

NASA / Goddard Institute for Space Studies

"Sixteen of the 17 warmest years in the 136-year temperature record all have occurred since 2001."

NASA / Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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