Special Report: Green Investing

Green entrepreneurs and asset managers are attracting interest from family offices and wealthy investors keen to explore a different type of engagement with ‘real assets'. Meanwhile, bond issuers are getting behind the market as well

Every few years a new theme catches the imagination of high-net-worth investors. In the 1980s it was emerging markets, in the 1990s it was technology, and in the last decade it has been green investing. The sector has evolved from screening out stocks not considered ethical, through a broader definition of ‘socially responsible’ to the current, positive ‘sustainable’ bias, particularly for low-carbon energy propositions. The combination of innovative projects and financial structuring in the sector is proving attractive to single and multi family offices and to wealthy individual investo...