Green finance special section
Impax Asset Management: Shorting the non-environmentalists
Climate Change Capital: Towards a carbon hedge fund
Clean Energy Asset Management: Focusing on renewable energy
BioFinancial Corp: Creating new markets to trade in
CONCERN FOR THE environment is becoming the vogue, not just among politicians, film stars and musicians but also in the finance industry. It has led to a growth in the number of publicly listed companies providing solutions to environmental issues, and has created new markets in such areas as carbon emissions. It is fodder for hedge fund managers who are straining to find new opportunities to create alpha as traditional hedge fund strategies become increasingly crowded.
It is, however, still very much...