klimaVest’s assets Real assets for your portfolio

ELTIFs (European Long-Term Investment Funds) are innovative financial instruments for long-term investments in infrastructure projects. ELTIFs open up new asset classes for private investors, as well as future-oriented growth markets that offer attractive return opportunities while strengthening the real economy.

In particular, the protection of investors plays a major role in the statutory ELTIF regulation. This should be ensured with the help of product transparency and appropriate investment information. ELTIFs are obliged to operate in accordance with clear legal framework conditions. In order to acquire klimaVest units and book them into a custody account, investors must participate in a prior investment consultation.

In contrast to securities such as shares or bonds, physical assets are characterised by physical intrinsic value. They are largely independent of stock exchanges and therefore have greater value stability than other conventional asset classes. The most common physical asset investments are usually real estate, commodities, precious metals or even hydroelectric, solar or wind power plants.

Investors can invest in physical assets directly or via investment funds. Compared to direct investments, such as the purchase of one’s own property, tangible asset funds invest the fund assets in several assets simultaneously. This means that the individual investment risks are spread over a larger number of assets and can therefore better balance each other out.

With the klimaVest tangible assets fund, for example, investors invest in more than 43 assets from the solar and wind power sector, distributed across 4 EU countries. Due to their low correlation with traditional asset classes, assets of this type are particularly well-suited to effective portfolio diversification.

As an ELTIF for private investors, klimaVest offers an innovative investment opportunity in one of the currently largest growth markets. Thanks to clear investment guidelines, the klimaVest fund managers explicitly select assets that aim for a solid risk-adjusted return – even with rising prices.

This includes, for example, geographic diversification, which not only serves to spread risk, but also to expand the portfolio with particularly attractive assets. The focus on larger photovoltaic and wind farms in particular can ensure higher operating margins and therefore also higher returns thanks to comparatively low operating costs. Long-term off-take agreements can generate these revenues for a long period of time, often for at least 10 years.

Thanks to its careful and long-term investment strategy, klimaVest is for the first time offering private investors access to the renewable energy market, which had previously been closed to them.

klimaVest bases its asset selection on three dimensions, which determine the suitability of the respective asset in the sense of the RSF framework. On the one hand, this involves the profitability (return) of the asset. In the next step, its sustainability is assessed. This is followed by formal criteria that the asset must meet in order to be included in the klimaVest portfolio.

The RSF procedure identifies assets that both contribute to an attractive risk-adjusted return and demonstrably contribute to achieving the defined sustainability goals without violating formal criteria.

klimaVest’s portfolio currently consists of 43 solar parks and wind farms for the generation of renewable energy. The fund thus actively promotes the expansion of renewable energies. With the increasing expansion and the legally regulated feed-in priority, conventional electricity from fossil fuels, which is often associated with high CO₂ emissions, can be constantly pushed back. klimaVest thus makes an active contribution to the sustainable transformation of the European energy industry and thus also to climate change mitigation. 

In addition to the expansion of renewable energies, klimaVest also pursues specific sustainability goals, such as the active saving of CO₂: The avoided emissions are calculated using the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and communicated transparently. As the production of renewable electricity also generates greenhouse gases, these emissions are added.

With klimaVest’s CO₂ calculator, you can estimate your personal CO₂ footprint and in the second section, estimate the targeted CO₂ avoidance of klimaVest's assets.