Offering investors a unique opportunity to generate favourable returns while contributing to the climate transition, Ecotone Partners’ Planet Fund is now officially open for investment, aiming for a first close by 31 March 2025.
Key features of the Planet Fund include:
- Diversification – Flexible deployment of capital through debt and equity provides exposure to a portfolio that is diversified across investments and asset classes.
- Consistent Income and Growth Potential – The portfolio will focus on structured debt investments with recurring income, while still offering investors access to capital growth opportunities through high conviction equity investments.
- Liquidity and Flexibility – With regular cash yields (after an initial ramp-up period) and redemption windows starting after three years, the Fund provides investors with liquidity and flexibility.
- Proven Climate Solutions – We target businesses with proven solutions to achieve climate impact in the short to medium term.
- Addressing a gap in the market – By supporting climate solutions underserved by traditional funding sources, we expect to access uncontested deal flow that offers favourable risk-adjusted returns.
In case you missed it, I spoke to Ecotone Partners’ Nicole Kleid-Small and Amanda Goodman in October, who lead the fund alongside fellow partners Jeremy Burke and Daniel Madhavan.
As detailed in that piece, Ecotone’s Planet Fund: Funding the Climate Transition, Nicole and Amanda explained how there is a mismatch between the investment that climate solutions need and the funding currently available. As traditional funding models are often not fit for purpose when it comes to climate solution funding, a new investment approach is needed — one specifically designed for climate solutions that can deliver outsized impact alongside outsized returns.
Wholesale investors are welcome to contact Ecotone Partners for a copy of the Information Memorandum (IM) or to register to attend investor presentations that are scheduled to take place in February.
For more on the Planet Fund see https://www.ecotonepartners.com.au/planet-fund or contact amanda@ecotonepartners.com.au or nicole@ecotonepartners.com.au.
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