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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?

75+

Years
Experience Investing

Zero

Style Drift

$252 Million

Assets Under Management
December 31, 2024

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

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 AXS Green Alpha ETF (ticker NXTE), 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.

Next Economy Fixed Income

A bond strategy co-managed by Green Alpha and Uniplan Investment Counsel. Portfolio constituents pass both Green Alpha’s top-down sustainability and management quality analysis, and Uniplan’s credit quality and bond analysis.

Investment Options

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

Thought Leadership

  • The Euro Greenwashing Scandal Reveals a Deeper Crisis: Failing Investors and the Planet

    The Euro Greenwashing Scandal Reveals a Deeper Crisis: Failing Investors and the Planet

    May 28, 2025
    A Response to “Revealed: European ‘green’ investments hold billions in fossil fuel majors” By Garvin Jabusch The Guardian’s investigation revealing over $33 billion in fossil fuel investments within European “green” funds is more than just a greenwashing scandal—it exposes a fundamental flaw in how the investment industry approaches risk and …Read More »
  • Book Review: Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

    Book Review: Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

    May 5, 2025
    A Next Economy Perspective by Garvin Jabusch. In their new book Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson offer a vision of the future that resonates deeply with the principles I’ve developed as one of two architects of Next Economy Portfolio Theory. Klein and I both envision a future of abundance …Read More »
  • Next Economy Investing During Volatile Times ~ Webinar Recording

    Next Economy Investing During Volatile Times ~ Webinar Recording

    April 8, 2020
    We recognize the severity of the global pandemic that we are all dealing with right now, and the market volatility it has caused. We hope you and your loved one are okay, safe, and healthy. This is a time of rapid change, disruption, and innovation – it’s through collaboration that …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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