Investeco is Canada’s first environmental investment company. By investing in both private and public companies in sectors like renewable energy, water, sustainable agriculture, and clean technologies we are able to tap into the growing demand for environmentally superior products and services. We believe that investing in the environmental economy helps build companies that matter, but success is providing superior returns to our investors.

Vice President, Portfolio Management – Investeco Capital Corp.

Greenchip was founded to manage portfolios of publicly listed companies operating globally in the environmental economy. Greenchip is 100% committed to invest only in companies that provide products and services offering solutions to environmental problems, or that improve the efficiency of natural resource use. We have compiled an impressive database and track over 600 listed companies annually. Investing with Greenchip improves the efficiency, productivity and sustainability of the economy.

Vice President, Portfolio Management – Greenchip Financial

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Greenchip was founded in 2007 to manage portfolios of publicly listed companies operating globally in the environmental economy. Greenchip is 100% committed to invest only in companies that provide products and services offering solutions to environmental problems, or that improve the efficiency of natural resource use.

We have compiled an impressive database and track over 600 listed companies annually. To be included in the Greenchip universe, companies must produce environmentally superior products and services, but sales from these businesses must also meet certain revenue tests.

Greenchip uses a disciplined four-stage process to identify issuers that will benefit from the growing recognition of environmental stresses, resource scarcity and demographic pressures. The process is focused only on companies that operate in four sectors of the global environmental economy, including alternative power, water, sustainable agriculture and environmental technologies.

Most environmental funds offered around the world employ an SRI or ESG strategy. Since these funds invest in almost every sector, they always contain environmentally neutral and even harmful companies, and generally have little chance to outperform broad indexes. In contrast, Greenchip’s multi-sector approach only invests in companies that solve environmental challenges, but is still diversified across several industries. This approach has the ability to outperform broad indexes, while being less volatile than single sector funds.

Greenchip has a unique strategic partnership with environmental private equity firm Investeco Capital Corp. Investeco was Canada's first environmental investment firm and manages more than $40 million for over 100 Canadian investors.

Investing with Greenchip improves the efficiency, productivity and sustainability of the economy.

Greenchip Financial Corp.

Greg Payne has more than 15 years of experience in the financial industry and more than six years experience focusing on investing in the environmental economy. His experience includes acting as a financial analyst and a member of the portfolio management team for KBSH Capital Management Inc. where he was involved in the management of over $200 million of retail and institutional client assets.

Mr. Payne has taken and passed a number of securities industry courses, including the Canadian Securities Course (1996), Chartered Financial Analyst Program (2000) and Canadian Securities Derivatives Fundamentals Course (2002). He has been a CFA charterholder since 2000.

Mr. Payne graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science (Honours Statistics). He also obtained a Master of Economics (1997) and Ph.D. in  Economics (2010) from the University of Toronto.

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The Future of Energy: What Will the Transition Look Like?

Interview with Mr. Greg Payne

Mobilizing Capital for the Environmental Economy

Corporate Venturing: The Arms Race for the Best Cleantech Opportunities

The transition to a low-carbon economy is in its very early days. The reality is that fossil fuels are still the most efficient, ubiquitous, reliable and affordable energy solutions available today. Understanding that a transformation of our energy system of this magnitude won’t happen overnight. In this presentation, Greg wil discuss technologies and issues that are having an impact now or are near on the horizon as we move to cleaner, smarter and attainable energy alternatives.

New clean technologies are crucial to helping companies reduce their energy and water use, emissions, and waste production per unit of revenue. This has led, in the words of one venture capitalist, to “an arms race for the best cleantech opportunities” with more corporations becoming interested in early-stage investments and strategic partnerships. Gain valuable insight into the future of investing in green innovations, and how companies are strategically partnering with early-stage innovators.

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