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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

$660 Million

Assets Under Management
March 31, 2021

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 – 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

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

Our lowest minimum investment size, since its available in a mutual fund 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

  • Systemic Risks & Economic Solutions: Transportation

    Systemic Risks & Economic Solutions: Transportation

    March 22, 2021
    With transportation contributing ~8 gigatons of greenhouse gases (CO2 equivalent) to the atmosphere each year, the sector is a key driver of the climate crisis. In addition, emissions from transportation contain very harmful poisons and contribute significantly to an estimated 8 million deaths per year worldwide. According to recent Harvard research, “as many as …Read More »
  • Green Alpha is Hiring: Operations & Finance Manager

    Green Alpha is Hiring: Operations & Finance Manager

    March 10, 2021
    Green Alpha Advisors is an asset management firm located in Niwot, Colorado. We serve individual clients, wealth advisors, family offices, and large institutions by investing assets in innovative, scalable solutions to our greatest economic and environmental risks – climate change, resource degradation, widening inequality, and human disease burdens. By directing …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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