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  • First fund tracking innovative resource efficiency index launches

    07 September 2016

    An innovative index that comprises companies that are efficient in relation to the consumption of energy, food and water (EFW) has licensed its first fund.

  • Outperforming efficiency index steps up hunt for fund

    18 November 2015

    A resource efficiency index that has significantly outperformed mainstream benchmarks since its inception nearly two years ago, has stepped up its search for an asset manager to base a fund on it.

  • Brazil's VIS buys Swiss cleantech finance firm and moves to Geneva

    13 October 2014

    Resource efficiency investor VIS has acquired Swiss firm Advanta Capital of Switzerland, a country it describes as an "emerging hub for sustainable finance".

  • Fund to launch following new resource efficiency index

    15 September 2014

    Investment firm VIS Essential Investments is to launch a resource efficiency fund later this year to accompany its new index.