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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

  • Diversity & Inclusion Criteria can be Powerful Investment Tools…when Responsibly Implemented ~ Wealth Management

    Diversity & Inclusion Criteria can be Powerful Investment Tools…when Responsibly Implemented ~ Wealth Management

    May 20, 2020
    An edited version of this article was originally published by WealthManagement.comWritten by Betsy Moszeter In corporations, heterogeneous leadership teams have been shown to create fewer governance controversies, have higher rates of creating leapfrogging innovations, are more customer-centric, more likely to capture new markets, and have higher sales growth rates than …Read More »
  • Investing in a New Kind of ESG ~ Worth

    Investing in a New Kind of ESG ~ Worth

    May 14, 2020
    ESG—whatever the acronym stands for—should be continuously defined one company at a time. Originally published by WorthAuthored by Garvin Jabusch ESG investing is all the rage now, right? But there are no agreed upon practices, let alone a regulatory rulebook, so the concept is pretty amorphous. Apart from citing that it …Read More »
  • The Economic Case for Divesting from Fossil Fuels ~ White Paper

    The Economic Case for Divesting from Fossil Fuels ~ White Paper

    January 29, 2015
    In this paper we discuss the systemic risks created by continued use of fossil fuels, and opportunity for long-term prosperity offering by investing in renewable alternatives. If you own fossil fuels you own global warming. You own the most likely cause of global economic and possibly even civilization-level failure, and moreover, you …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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