5 impact investing advisors in Switzerland. Galileo Impact Stories #28 - YouTube

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Hi, friends. We continue creating for you useful resources about impact investing
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and related topics. Today we have selected five impact investment advisors
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in Switzerland. There are many more than five impact investment advisors
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available but we have selected those which are: young, innovative, amazing and
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committed to impact people in the team, highly professional and highly professional and
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true impact investing players. All links are provided under this video, let's start.
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iGravity is impact investing advisory based in Zurich.
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They are the force of attraction that connects innovative ventures,
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entrepreneurs, NGOs, governments and leading corporations - all with the unique
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business model solving pressing needs for the people and the planet. With
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iGravity in-house tools and expertise they develop tailor-made investment
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portfolio based on individual profiles regarding performance, risk, tolerance
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liquidity and social impact. The result is a highly diversified portfolio across
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investment, sectors, asset classes and geographies. Thanks to their iGravity
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lens every investment is aligned with one of more SDG's. iGravity is also
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innovating and working on creating igravity impact index which will allow
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retail investors to invest in various sustainable topics such as renewable
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energy, education and microfinance. Expected to come this summer. The second
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one is Quadia based in Geneva. Quadia provides equity and debt financing to
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companies that are inventing a regenerative economy and driving global
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sustainability priorities. Quadia currently focuses its
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investments in two main sectors: food - technology, agriculture, local food brands
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and clean energy - infrastructure, technology, efficiency. They have invested
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more than 180 million CHF in thirty-five companies funds in their
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portfolio
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The third one Obviam based in the capital of Switzerland, Bern. Obviam invests
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profitably for improving livelihoods in developing countries and their support
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inclusive growth. Their institutional governmental and individual clients
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benefit from bespoke portfolios tailored to their needs. This is not a young
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organization but one on the contrary has over twenty years of private equity
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investment experience in emerging and frontier markets. They manage more than
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880 million CHF currently invested in 481
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companies in more than 70 countries and have net IRR since
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1998 of 16 percent! Over more than two decades they have worked for the Swiss
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government and other governmental clients some of the world's largest
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financial institutions, foundations and individual investors. Obviam can help you
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do good while doing well. Are you interested? Please get in touch with them
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Bamboo Capital Partners are private equity advisory based in Geneva. It finds
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game-changing businesses then applies a mix of geographical and sector expertise
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to deliver financial and social returns. They are experts in energy, health care
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and financial services globally. Since bamboo launched in 2007 it has proved
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that private capital can be profitably deployed as a tool for effective change.
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It has about 290 million dollars under management with a portfolio of 33
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companies in over 20 countries. Bamboo is very innovative impact investing player
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they partnered with MOEDA and created BLOC fund - the first impact fund in the
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world which uses blended finance to exclusively invest in companies that use
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new technologies, in particular blockchain, to benefit the low
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middle impact populations in emerging markets. You can read more about how
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impact investing and blockchain can be united as a force for good in the
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article provided under this video. And the last but not least, Symbiotic - one is
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the leading impact investing players based in Geneva. Symbiotic has helped set up of
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the twenty-five impact investing funds and has originated about five million US
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dollars of impact investments since 2005. The company has issued more than three
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thousand six hundred transactions for 425 institutions in 83
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countries. In addition Symbiotic acts as capacity builder and supports impact
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companies with an expertise. They provide technical assistance for projects aiming
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to maximize impact and strengthen institutional capacity of their partners
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while aligning their needs with the goals of donors and project founders
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Well, these were five impact investing players from Switzerland. Write in
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comments what other impact investing advisors we should include in our videos
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and why. That's all for today, thanks for watching and bye have a nice day