The market for renewable energy and energy efficiency has seen a dramatic change in recent years. Rising commodity and fuel prices have triggered a massive shift of investments into alternative energy sources. Due to policy changes and public pressure, major corporations are now increasingly turning their attention to developing energy efficient technologies that will shape the future. The demand for clean energy has turned a small and exotic niche dominated by small groups of individual inventors into part of the mainstream global economy.

So-called green investments have thus increasingly come into the focus of institutional investors who want to devote more capital to investments that promote climate protection and allocate resources to advancements in energy efficiency. Such investments not only offer attractive returns but they usually also have a lower correlation with other traditional asset classes. This makes green investments suitable as a diversification within existing portfolio context.

We offer institutional investors access to these markets in the form of investment strategies which we develop in cooperation with our clients. Our team of experienced portfolio managers identifies high-quality, sustainable energy projects and trading opportunities utilizing a sophisticated, multi-level internal selection process which has been developed and successfully applied over a span of years.

Clean Energy Funding

First Climate offers vehicles that invest equity and mezzanine capital  in  low-carbon,  clean  energy  projects. The majority of these projects is based in Asia, due to the anticipated growth rates and resulting energy hunger in this region. These capital investments target projects using  biomass,  hydro,  solar,  waste-to-energy,  biogas, and  hybrid  technologies  for  optimum  diversification. The focus is on attractive,  medium-sized  projects  and  portfolios  in  India, China and selected Southeast Asian countries.

Carbon Trading Opportunities

First Climate´s proprietary trading strategy aims to exploit price movements in the carbon market. The objective is to trade carbon and related commodities in order to profit from market opportunities which are identified early on using a sophisticated and state of the art trading and risk management system.

For more information on our institutional asset management solutions
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