our story
Incubated as a family office in 1999, WAM has evolved into an asset manager with a focus on high risk-adjusted financial returns alongside positive environmental impact. Identifying macro trends and developing know how to be able to benefit from it, resulted in 13x gross return of an earlier fund. Now we see great possibilities in the green industrial revolution.
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our beliefs
The green industrial revolution is here and happening right now. Climate change is real and ongoing. Disruptive technologies based on this will deliver great financial returns and improve the environment. WAM is positioned in the center of these developments. The firm takes smart positions in across all asset classes, with a focus on growth stage private equity. It will actively develop the companies in its portfolio.
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our people
People make the difference, in WAM and in our investments. In WAM we have a shared back-office and analysis section, in combination with dedicated teams for green growth private equity. The committed team members have great track-records in finance and industry.
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Our Platforms
GROWTH STAGE PRIVATE EQUITY WITH POSITIVE IMPACT: GGF2
GGF2, Green Growth Fund 2, is our private equity fund which invests in European growth companies. The aim is to deliver high returns and to benefit the environment.
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IMPACT INVESTING ACROSS ALL ASSET CLASSES: CLIMATE ENDOWMENT
WAM is a co-founder and ongoing-partner of the Climate Endowment Group, www.climate-endowment.com. It offers both sector specific funds – such as the “Climate Endowment Run-of-the-river Hydropower Fund” with 1/100th the CO2 emissions of the EU power-sector, regular cash-flows, hard assets as security and some 8-10% expected return – and a pool of capital to be invested across all asset classes and sectors, the “Climate Endowment Fund”. The latter offers an “endowment style” investment approach, with a high share of long-term alternative investments and climate impact across all asset classes. While EU pension and insurance funds have returned around 4% per annum in € over the past 30 years, the Yale and Harvard endowments have returned some 10% per annum in $ over the past 30 years.
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FORESTRY
At peak, funds launched by WAM co-owned long-term forest leases covering over 1,000,000 hectares (or four times the size of Luxemburg), with an allowable cut of 800,000m3 and annual sawnwood production of 200,000m3 per annum. Given WAM’s founding family’s longstanding roots in a small forestry & sawmill business in Germany’s Black Forest, long-term investing and sustainability come natural to us. There continues to be deep expertise on forestry in the larger family.
BERLIN GREEN INVESTMENT SUMMIT
Our yearly investment summit will give you valuable insights around investing for profits and at the same time drive positive climate change. Our event 2020 will be held quarterly in a digital “Hight Tea” format where the first will be held on the 25th of June at 16h-16.45 CET.
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our platforms
GROWTH STAGE PRIVATE EQUITY WITH POSITIVE IMPACT: GGF2
GGF2, Green Growth Fund 2, is our private equity fund which invests in European growth companies. The aim is to deliver high returns and to benefit the environment.
READ MORE
IMPACT INVESTING ACROSS ALL ASSET CLASSES: CLIMATE ENDOWMENT
WAM is a co-founder and ongoing-partner of the Climate Endowment Group, www.climate-endowment.com. It offers both sector specific funds - such as the “Climate Endowment Run-of-the-river Hydropower Fund” with 1/100th the CO2 emissions of the EU power-sector, regular cash-flows, hard assets as security and some 8-10% expected return - and a pool of capital to be invested across all asset classes and sectors, the “Climate Endowment Fund”. The latter offers an “endowment style” investment approach, with a high share of long-term alternative investments and climate impact across all asset classes. While EU pension and insurance funds have returned around 4% per annum in € over the past 30 years, the Yale and Harvard endowments have returned some 10% per annum in $ over the past 30 years.
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BERLIN GREEN INVESTMENT SUMMIT
Our yearly investment summit will give you valuable insights around investing for profits and at the same time drive positive climate change. Our event 2020 will be held quarterly in a digital “Hight Tea” format where the first will be held on the 25th of June at 16h-16.45 CET.
READ MORE
our platforms
GROWTH STAGE PRIVATE EQUITY WITH POSITIVE IMPACT: GGF2
GGF2, Green Growth Fund 2, is our private equity fund which invests in European growth companies. The aim is to deliver high returns and to benefit the environment.
READ MORE
IMPACT INVESTING ACROSS ALL ASSET CLASSES: CLIMATE ENDOWMENT
is our evergreen investment vehicle. It invests in all asset classes, based on perceived potential and risk created by the green industrial revolution.
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BERLIN GREEN INVESTMENT SUMMIT
Our yearly investment summit will give you valuable insights around investing for profits and at the same time drive positive climate change. This year the event takes place on 5th June
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Market Commentary: The German debt brake – so far a mostly counterproductive policy instrument
Everything has already been said about the debt brake – but not by everybody, as the Bavarian poet Karl Valentin might have said. Here is
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