Ferd Impact Investing invests in early-stage climate tech companies that have the potential to deliver both a positive climate and environment impact and a solid risk-adjusted return. We primarily invest through funds and occasionally make direct investments, the latter mainly as co-investments with our fund managers.
Here you can read our latest Impact report and explore our portfolio.
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.
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.
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*.
