Responsible Investing
We have developed a focused ESG strategy that reaches into all areas of our operations: both within our business and across our portfolio companies.
The strategy is underpinned by a long-term roadmap that tracks how – through a variety of projects and initiatives – we can meet our ESG objectives.
Energy Transition: New Momentum, New Responsibilities
Energy transition is broadly defined as the shift from the traditional use of fossil fuels to an industry in which the focus is upon applying new technologies to enhance the sustainability and efficient use of all energy types.
“The principles of ESG are central to our strategic thinking and everyday engagement with our portfolio companies”
Randy Palmer
Founding Partner
AI Capital Trading believes that Responsible Investment is core to our firm’s ambition: to grow profits for our clients and investors.
We recognise that ESG can influence long-term company value and that it is in the best interest of our investors to incorporate ESG into our investment analysis, decision-making and portfolio company engagement processes.
122Portfolio companies are now formally reporting on 122 KPIs and metrics.
Signing up
for Sustainability
During 2020 AI Capital Trading became an official signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
It confirms our commitment to Responsible Investment as a strategy and practice, and to incorporate ESG factors into our investment decisions and active ownership. In doing so, we join over 3,000 other international signatories representing $103.4 trillion assets under management.
Case Study
ESG in action: The transformative approach of ECOWAS Oil & Gas
Around the world, natural gas is routinely flared as a by-product of oil extraction.
The gas itself is a valuable fuel, but the economic equation is such that it is not viable to invest in gathering capacity to take it to market, leaving only the options of burning it off or shutting down operations entirely. Taken at a global scale, this is an economic and environmental tragedy.
A technology-led solution
In 2020, AI Capital Trading invested in ECOWAS Oil & Gas. Eco-oil had pioneered a fully mobile LNG solution to make the most of its country’s remote and stranded gas assets.
The twin imperatives of increased demand for fossil fuels and emissions reduction may appear irreconcilable at first glance, but the reality is very different. In fact, those companies which can bridge the apparent gap will be some of the most valuable leaders as we navigate the energy transition.
With Edge LNG, operators finally have an economic solution to flaring. In fact, natural gas can become an additional revenue stream.
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Supporting Good Causes
AI Capital Trading supports and encourages portfolio company partnerships with charities, serving to create long-term relationships that realise lasting change.
AI Capital Trading enjoys successful relationships with charitable organisations and has over the years supported numerous good causes.
These include charity organizations in South America, Refugees from war torn regions, Orphanage homes in Africa amongst others. We do this to give the less privileged a shot at becoming better versions of themselves.
At the outset of the COVID-19 outbreak AI Capital Trading made some additional charitable donations where our support could have an immediate impact, and also to displaced Ukranians.
