Salt to list carbon fund
New Zealand’s first NZX-listed carbon fund will launch on the exchange next month.
Friday, October 26th 2018, 1:30PM
Salt Funds Management’s Carbon Fund offer opened last week. The fund is designed to trade in New Zealand and international carbon credits.
It will be a PIE and trade as CO2 on the NZX.
Salt said it expected the price of carbon globally to rise over time.
Managing director Paul Harrison said:“The global economy is in transition and the price of carbon is becoming an important factor for investors; as a cost, as an influence and now as an investment opportunity.
“This fund positions carbon as a new alternative asset and aims to give individuals and organisations a chance to invest in, or offset these changes.”
The Carbon Fund offers exposure to the price of carbon credits (or Units), which will be bought from the emissions trading scheme in New Zealand or offshore carbon markets.
“Just in the last week we have received expressions of interest from a broad range of retail and institutional investors," Harrison said.
"There is a genuine appetite to understand the mechanics of the fund, and in particular the risk component, given this is new territory for investors."
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