Increasing economic and geopolitical uncertainty makes safe, profitable investing challenging. One certainty that investors can count on is the growing need for safe, reliable water and the steadily increasing spending on water-related infrastructure. These fundamental factors drive stable, consistent earnings growth for many of the global water companies in Water Asset Management’s...
Water Asset Management (WAM) is committed to making the world better by investing in companies and assets that improve water quality and water supply. Water investing combines market outperformance with positive impact, clearly bypassing ESG ambiguity. WAM’s Global Water Equity Strategy was ranked first by eVestment in long-term performance vs. ESG peers since its...
March 02, 2023 10:37 AM Eastern Standard Time NEW YORK--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Water Asset Management ’s (WAM’s) long-only global water impact strategy recently was recognized by eVestment as: The #1 ranked fund in eVestment’s Global Equity ESG-Focused Universe since its 2006 inception. One of only 22 funds out of 466 global ESG...
Since our inception in 2006, Water Asset Management’s global water equity portfolios have outperformed the market. This performance is based on the fundamental fact that demand for essential water and wastewater services, and the products that ensure water quality and water supply, have strong fundamental tail winds and are less economically sensitive than many other industries. The...
Water Asset Management’s global water investment strategy is grounded on the underlying core belief that all water problems are solvable. They simply require capital, water industry competence and the will to act. Every day, WAM is investing in and creating innovative water solutions. These solutions often require implementing more dynamic, iterative and flexible “systems...
Water company investing is the leading edge of climate adaptation investing, as the primary negative effect of climate change is the intensification of drought and flood. Water Asset Management’s multi-decade focus on investing in companies that improve water supply reliability, water quality and flood mitigation squarely positions our portfolio for continued, long-term...
Inflation appears likely to persist, which affects everyone’s bottom line. Did you know that water utilities have inflation protected business models? Regulations allow water utilities to raise tariffs, passing through inflationary costs to ratepayers. Earlier this year, water utilities in the UK raised tariffs roughly 7%. In the US, 10%. Brazilian water utilities recently increased...
Don’t let the recent torrential rains and record snowstorms mislead you: California’s drought is far from over. Lake Mead’s water levels remain dangerously below normal. Jennifer Pitt, Colorado River program director with the National Audubon Society, recently told Newsweek : "To refill the Colorado River reservoirs, we would need three average years of...
Water Asset Management’s president, Matthew Diserio, will be appearing on the panel “Thematic Solutions to the Climate Crisis” at the Climate & Capital Conference Wednesday, September 21, 2022. The event will be streamed live via FINTECH.TV. The “Thematic Solutions to the Climate Crisis” panel, streaming from 2:45-3:25 p.m. eastern,...
One of the channels where Water Asset Management (WAM) delivers big bang for our investors’ buck is through scaled practice of regenerative agriculture, also known as “regen ag.” The shift to regenerative agriculture is really a return to regenerative agriculture, as it means farming in much the same way that our grandparents did. Examples of regen ag practices include...
People often ask if there is a “magic-bullet” technology to solve the world’s growing water problems. Having invested globally for decades, exclusively in companies and assets that improve water quality and water supplies, we have learned that the solution is not a single technology or product. Instead, the key to reliable water is a proper regulatory framework that...