Impact Investing

Ferd Impact Investing invests in early-phase companies with the potential to have a positive impact on the climate and environment and to generate a robust risk-adjusted financial return. We use our impact lenses through the whole investment cycle.

Read our impact report here.

We invest across all key climate sectors for a net-zero future

Energy Transition

The global energy sector must transition from fossil-based to zero-carbon by the second half of this century. We invest in new technologies and business models to achieve this target.

Sustainable cities

A sustainable city is engineered to improve its environmental impact. We invest in sectors that require systemic changes if we are to make our cities greener, such as construction and real estate, mobility, waste management and our food systems.

Ocean

The ocean is the heart and lungs of our planet. Yet, the ocean faces existential threats through overfishing, pollution and climate change. We invest in solutions to save our oceans and secure more sustainable aquaculture solutions.

The global energy sector must transition from fossil-based to zero-carbon by the second half of this century. We invest in new technologies and business models to achieve this target.

A sustainable city is engineered to improve its environmental impact. We invest in sectors that require systemic changes if we are to make our cities greener, such as construction and real estate, mobility, waste management and our food systems.

The ocean is the heart and lungs of our planet. Yet, the ocean faces existential threats through overfishing, pollution and climate change. We invest in solutions to save our oceans and secure more sustainable aquaculture solutions.

Investment strategy

We identify funds and companies with a significant climate impact​ potential.​

​To identify opportunities, we stay up to date through newsletters and research. We attend climate- related events and prioritize introductory meetings with both emerging and established fund managers.​​

We are continuously striving to be an active impact investor, in order to gain access to attractive investment opportunities.

Screening and due diligence

Impact is one of our key investment criteria when we screen investment opportunities and perform our due diligence.​​

For funds and companies, respectively, we have developed impact scorecards, inspired by approaches used by other renowned impact investors and​ internationally recognized frameworks.​

​We evaluate whether there is a match between the investment opportunities and our investment strategy and whether there is enough impact potential for us to invest.

Active ownership and reporting

We require all our funds and companies​ to report on impact. The level of reporting among funds and companies​ in the portfolio varies, and for those that​ have a less mature approach to impact​ reporting, we encourage and assist in​ the further development of this.​

We aggregate and summarize results​ from the portfolio in our annual impact​ report, which was published for the​ first time in 2022.​

Since 2023 we also report on CO2​ emissions across the portfolio.​

We do not require our investments​ to be SFDR Article 9 compliant as​ we acknowledge that the reporting​ requirements are tough especially for​ early-stage companies*.

Impact Report