Investment Products

Trucost's partners, which include some of the best known names in the financial services industry, utilise the unique insights they get from Trucost data to create environmentally-optimised indices and investment products.

	Carbon Neutral Investments Carbon Neutral Investments is a full service brokerage providing investors with access to various exchange traded and OTC markets. It also offers trading in EUA's, CER's and VER's and access to stage funding for new and ongoing Credit Producing projects.
	Climate Neutral Investments  Climate Neutral Investments Ltd (a company of South Pole Holding Ltd) enables investors to neutralize the greenhouse gas emissions of their investment portfolios through carbon offsets. This can be applied to portfolios with or without a Socially Responsible Investment focus. An investor chooses an investment under regular risk/return considerations and CNI calculates the costs to make the investment carbon neutral.
	Bank of America Merrill Lynch  The BofA Merrill Lynch Carbon Leaders Europe Index offers exposure to the European stocks with the lowest carbon footprint in their respective sectors. Additionally, these stocks have favourable valuations characteristics and ‘Buy' or ‘Neutral' ratings from BofAML Research.
	Carbon Footprint Investments Formed in 2009, the ethos of Carbon Footprint Investments plc is to give investors mainstream investment opportunities alongside a measurable effect on the carbon footprint of both individuals and institutions and, in consequence, on the global environment. Trucost provides data and analysis on company emissions to inform the investment decisions.
	ELAN Capital Partners The BILKU 1 Carbon Efficient Bond Fonds invests in a broadly diversified portfolio of international corporate bonds. The fund offers private and institutional investors the opportunity, for the first time, to invest in bonds of companies who are leaders in their specific industry sector in terms of CO2-efficiency. By avoiding costs associated with climate risks, the BILKU 1 Carbon Efficient Bond Fonds is expected to outperform its peer group medium to long term.
	GLG Partners The GLG Environment Fund is a long only equity fund which targets investments in companies that combine both a robust financial and strategic profile with superior economic returns potential and a commitment to environmental investing. The fund invests across sectors in companies with a lighter than average environmental footprint, actively adopting environmental best practices or offering environmental solutions.
	Legal & General Investment Management The objective of the UK Equity Carbon Optimized Index Fund is to track the performance of the UK All-Share Carbon Optimized Index to within +/-0.5% p.a. for two years out of three. The Fund employs an index tracking strategy, aiming to replicate the performance of its benchmark. We follow a pragmatic approach to managing index funds, either investing directly in the securities of that index, or indirectly through other LGIM funds. The Fund may also hold index and single stock futures for efficient portfolio management.
	NYSE Euronext The Low Carbon 100 Europe Index is an index weighted by free-float market capitalisation, designed to measure the performance of the 100 largest European companies having the lowest carbon (CO2) intensity in their respective sectors or homogenous sub-sectors.
	Standard and Poor's Standard and Poor's has now worked with Trucost to build two carbon efficient indices. The first, the S&P U.S. Carbon Efficient Index, seeks to replicate the returns of the S&P500 whilst reducing exposure to carbon emissions by up to 50%. The second, the S&P IFCI Carbon Efficient Index closely tracks the returns of the S&P IFCI Emerging Markets index whilst again considerably reducing exposure to carbon emissions.
	Sustinvest Sustinvest has partnered with Trucost to offer a financial product and an environmental impacts management tool to Korean clients. The partnership will also entail building a robust database of Korean companies and developing a specialized company analysis methodology for asian companies.
	UBS The UBS Europe Carbon Optimised Index contains the same companies as the benchmark, the DJ STOXX 600 Index. By matching the sector weightings of the benchmark, but under-weighting the highest carbon-intensity companies and vice-versa within sectors, the index delivers a low carbon version of the benchmark index.
	Virgin The Virgin Climate Change ISA invests in specially selected businesses (predominantly in the UK and Europe) who aim to drive outstanding profit growth and have a lighter environmental footprint. The belief is that these companies will outperform heavier polluters who are facing increasing pollution taxes and penalties, imposed by Governments and regulators.