
BFG Environmental Impact
The objective of the BFG Environmental Impact strategy is to invest into companies and organizations with the intention to generate a measurable environmental impact and long-term capital appreciation across industries focused on renewable energy, green technologies, and clean water.
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.
What is Environmental Impact?
Benefits of Environmental Impact 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 Environmental Impact 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. Holdings are spread 1/3 evenly across each category of renewable energy, green technology, and clean water.
Disclosures:
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Information shown is as of date stated above, unless otherwise noted. Model performance deviates from actual client performance. Some of the common reasons include: Different execution prices – model trades execute immediately while client trades execute in windows. Frequent rebalances – models that are rebalanced frequently will deviate more quickly since different execution prices will have a greater impact. Missed syncs – model holdings will differ from client holdings if the model is modified but not synced or if a particular client does not fully sync to the model weights. Different fees – performance as shown in this material are without fees; depending on the type of service and asset size, fees vary and will have a different impact for each client. This material is intended for information purposes only and should not be construed as legal, accounting, tax, investment or other professional advice. All statistics presented are based upon information obtained from sources believed to be reliable but the accuracy of which cannot be guaranteed. In addition, information provided by third parties may be derived using methodologies or techniques that are proprietary or unique to the third-party source. Any opinions expressed in this material are current only as of the time made and are subject to change without notice