Sustainable Investors Fund
For two decades, we have sought out and partnered with innovative
emerging managers creating the next generation of impact-oriented
investment management companies, culminating in the creation of our
seeding platform: the Sustainable Investors Fund.
Seeding Sustainability –
Driven Strategies
Sustainable Investors Fund (SIF) is a private equity partnership designed to create significant value through ownership and early-stage investment in public and private asset managers who incorporate sustainability as a key driver of investment returns.
SIF has deployed catalytic capital into over a dozen emerging asset management firms aiming to address climate change mitigation, financial inclusion, and sustainable markets.
SIF’s Approach
to Impact
The SIF Portfolio
Overview
Aristata is the first commercial litigation funder dedicated to driving positive social and environmental change. It invests in a portfolio of cases across a range of sectors, generating attractive and uncorrelated risk-adjusted returns.
Impact Thesis
Harness the power of private capital and the law to drive systemic impact at scale across climate change, human rights, equality, and justice reform.
SIF Impact Video Series
Overview
Center Creek uses an innovative approach to affordable real estate rehabilitation and ownership. Its platform of single-family rental homes offers quality affordable housing for residents with a pathway to home ownership plus near-term cash flows and long-term appreciation to investors.
Impact Thesis
Differentiated approach to affordable housing in the US, focused on single-family vs. multi-family, and improved pathways to homeownership among LMI communities.
SIF Impact Video Series
Overview
Community Investment Management is an impact investment manager providing strategic debt capital to demonstrate and scale responsible innovation in lending to underserved borrowers in the US and emerging markets.
Impact Thesis
Contribute to closing the credit gap for micro, small, and medium enterprises within US and emerging markets.
SIF Impact Video Series
Overview
Ecofin U.S. Renewable Energy Trust is a UK Trust investing in a diversified portfolio of mixed renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure assets, predominantly small and medium solar and wind projects in the US.
Impact Thesis
Accelerate the deployment of private capital towards the energy transition in a low-cost, highly scalable vehicle.
SIF Impact Video Series
Overview
Inherent Group is an ESG-integrated investment management firm offering opportunistic, impact-oriented, multi-asset and credit strategies across public and private markets.
Impact Thesis
Demonstrate that leading on material sustainability issues can influence the cost of capital and lead to superior risk-adjusted returns.
SIF Impact Video Series
Overview
Kepos Capital is a macro-focused firm with a strong risk management program across fund offerings, including a carbon evolution fund focused on diversified, long-only exposure to carbon markets.
Impact Thesis
Increase financial activity in carbon markets, encouraging higher prices in a supply-constrained market and forcing companies to prioritize carbon abatement.
Overview
Lafayette Square is a minority-controlled and led impact investment platform working locally to confront critical societal challenges with capital and services across credit, real estate, and renewables.
Impact Thesis
Provide capital to companies and ventures that deliver sustained economic and social benefits to their surrounding communities.
Overview
MSquared is a women-owned real estate impact platform that develops mixed-income, mixed-use projects promoting affordability, sustainability, and inclusion.
Impact Thesis
Unique approach to addressing the affordability crisis by developing new, sustainable projects while also directing capital to women and minority developers.
Overview
Norselab is a Nordic impact investing platform with various funds that provide venture capital to disruptive technologies in resource-intensive sectors.
Impact Thesis
Support early-stage companies with net positive business practices that seek to enhance resource and operational efficiency in traditional industries.
Overview
Osmosis is a research-based, quantitative investment manager offering long-only and market neutral global equity strategies that seek alpha in resource efficient companies.
Impact Thesis
Differentiated and scalable tool to evaluate businesses on the basis of emissions, water, and waste efficiency.
Overview
Respira International is a carbon finance business helping institutions mitigate their environmental footprint through high-quality, nature-based offsets and emissions reduction solutions.
Impact Thesis
Systemic social impact around climate change through support of natural projects and local communities.
SIF Impact Video Series
Overview
SDCL EDGE Acquisition is a SPAC vehicle targeting opportunities focused on energy efficient and decentralized energy solutions for a lower carbon economy.
Impact Thesis
SPAC structure enables the requisite large-scale financing and access to the public market for companies driving the transition to a lower carbon energy economy.
Overview
Sustainable Development Acquisition I Corp is a SPAC vehicle co-led by SIF and Renewable Resources Group. It seeks to acquire a business addressing global challenges within food, agriculture, water, or renewable energy.
Impact Thesis
SPAC structure allows for convergence of impact, investment thesis, and the scale of public market financing relevant for target sectors.