Environmentally Impactful
Investing in environmentally impactful stocks focuses on companies committed to sustainability and positive environmental practices. These stocks often belong to businesses involved in renewable energy, clean technology, waste management, and other green industries. By investing in these companies, investors can support the transition to a more sustainable economy while potentially benefiting from the growth of the green sector. Environmentally impactful stocks not only offer the potential for financial returns but also align with values of environmental responsibility and ethical investing. This approach allows investors to contribute to global sustainability goals while building a diversified and forward-thinking investment portfolio.
What is Environmental Impact?
Environmental Impact refers to an investment strategy that is meant to generate a financial return as well as a positive environmental impact. The strategy actively seeks to make a positive impact by investing in companies in the following categories: renewable energy, green technologies, and clean water.
Benefits of Environmentally Impactful Investing
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Align values with investing
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Stabilize a portfolio
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Heal the world & achieve market-rate returns
Risks of Environmentally Impactful Investing
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Overall market risk in stock market
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High prices of new technologies
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Political pressures from competitor lobbyists
Why We Invest in Environmentally Impactful Companies
We believe we need to take on the challenges facing our planet and our global population. We support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Through impacting investing, we can promote positive change and profitable business practices by investing in companies we believe to further this concept. Although many environmentally impactful companies are not profitable, especially renewable energy ones, our strategy only invests in profitable and fundamentally sound companies.
The strategy's holdings are spread 1/3 evenly across each category of renewable energy, green technology, and clean water.