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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?

70

Years
Experience Investing

0

Style Drift

$650 Million

Assets Under Management
June 30, 2022

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 Next Economy Index portfolio possesses our longest track record and largest basket of stocks.

The Social Index

Uniquely rigorous gender-lens, diversity, and social inclusion criteria applied to Next Economy candidates to maximize each company’s cognitive power, execution, and risk management potential. Traded via an annual rebalance.

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. We are proud to be the only financial services firm allowed to utilize the Sierra Club’s criteria to manage investment assets.

Growth & Income

Powerful combination of growth, high current income, and relatively low volatility in one actively-managed portfolio.

Next Economy Select

This strategy implements an important part of our mission: democratizing access to institutional-quality investing. The primary investment option is the Shelton Green Alpha mutual fund (ticker NEXTX), which is invested in high conviction companies bought at compelling current valuations.

DiversiTerra

Our actively managed, gender lens portfolio, which invests at the intersection of the most diverse companies in the Next Economy universe that are foremost on Green Alpha’s conviction list. It’s a concentrated subset of our Social Index portfolio.

AXS Sustainable Income Fund

An ESG-based high-yield strategy that invests primarily in below-investment-grade corporate bonds of a diversified mix of Next Economy companies and select corporate bonds directed at Next Economy Solutions.

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

  • The Food Conundrum: Can Regenerative Agriculture Feed the World?

    The Food Conundrum: Can Regenerative Agriculture Feed the World?

    July 28, 2022
    With increasing challenges surrounding sufficient food production, can we also mitigate the negative climate effects caused by conventional agriculture? By Kathleen Chappelear, Equity Analyst We all know that we need large-scale agriculture to produce enough food to feed the world, but at the same time, current practices in conventional agriculture …Read More »
  • Benchmarking Against the Sustainable Economy

    Benchmarking Against the Sustainable Economy

    July 18, 2022
    By Garvin Jabusch, CIO. In the field of investment management, one of the key performance metrics we’re judged against is our ability to generate portfolio returns comparable to those of a benchmark index; think S&P 500 Index or Dow Jones Industrial Average. If portfolio returns deviate from the benchmark too …Read More »
  • Natural & Organic Food: An Investment for the Next Economy ~ White Paper

    Natural & Organic Food: An Investment for the Next Economy ~ White Paper

    March 11, 2016
    In this research paper, we discuss how to think about Investing for the Next Economy in the natural and organic foods segment of the market. Read the White Paper The Next Economy is the unfolding, solutions-driven way we produce and consume goods and services. As systemic risks — climate change, resource scarcity, widening …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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