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OUR APPROACH

Ecofin has been a research driven firm since its founding in 1992. The firm has a strong in-house research capability with portfolio managers and investment professionals located in London, New York, Hong Kong, Sydney and Geneva. Ecofin is recognised as a leading investor in its field. It has extensive senior contacts within the global utility, infrastructure, alternative energy and environmental industries and meets regularly with utility regulators and policy makers.

Ecofin pursues a thematic and fundamental approach in managing client assets. The firm seeks to identify and evaluate longer-term trends and developments affecting the global utility, infrastructure, alternative energy and environmental sectors and then uses a fundamental approach to understand the likely effect of such trends on the companies within its investment universe. Depending on a client’s objectives, Ecofin takes advantage of the highly fragmented nature of the global utility sector - in which most companies serve local, regional or national service areas - to construct portfolios diversified with respect to country, sub-sector, company size and regulatory regime.

Ecofin also has a history of successfully investing in special situations; that is, in companies where Ecofin has been able to negotiate the terms of its investment and where funds managed by Ecofin, often acting together, have taken substantial stakes. These special situation investments have been in both listed companies and in unquoted companies and Ecofin has often sought and obtained board representation. Ecofin has a team of investment professionals with utility industry and corporate finance backgrounds which is dedicated to originating, structuring, monitoring and realising such investments.