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Akuo Investment Management is a leading provider of fund management services that offers investors access to diversified portfolios of long-term, project-financed, renewable energy infrastructure assets with well-defined cash flows. Our combination of entrepreneurial, industry, and regional expertise allows us to deliver innovative services and strong investment returns to our investors while at the same investing in assets that promote a more sustainable environment.
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Our COmpany
At AIM, we know that the smartest investments should do two things: profitinvestors, and enrich the world.
This is why we are 100% committed to renewable energy. This incredibly dynamic sector not only offers exceptionally stable and attractive financial returns. It is also one of the best ways of ensuring tomorrow’s energy needs, and the future health of the planet.
We don’t just ‘believe’ in renewable energy. We’re not wide-eyed ideologues. We’re hard-wired technical and financial experts who know the science and have done the math, and we’re backed by one of the best players in the business. aIm is an offshoot of akuo Energy, a private group that builds industrial power plants that run on wind, sun, water, biogas, biomass and biofuel. akuo has 300 mW of projects in operation, over 400 mW of projects under construction, and is developing numerous projects with a goal of having 3,000 mW of capacity in the next 5 years.
aIm has built on this powerhouse foundation to create a global fund management and advisory group specializing in renewable energy investment and in the creation of social and financial value.
I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. Thomas Edison
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Every aIm-backed project brings social benefits, from transferring know-how to local communities to more effective and responsible farming practices. Our community-oriented development strategies pioneer a distinctive context-based approach that optimizes sustainable energy production and original land usage by harmonizing these two factors. Our agrinergie program, for example, synergizes solar power production and the land’s original agricultural output by switching to higher-value crops that take advantage of greenhouses and the shadowing created by ground-mounted panels.
We make money. and we make a difference.
a longtime advocate of impact finance, aIm finances the development and construction of renewable energy infrastructure projects worldwide. We have a proven track record in carrying through clean energy initiatives that generate stable, long-term returns for investors and real social value for local communities.
adaptive synergy is an impact financing strategy characterized by our commitment to sustainability and social investment. Combined with our unique sourcing opportunities, investment independence, rigorous investment process, and strong risk management, it is a distinctive investment philosophy that produces capital and social gains.
At AIM, we do the right thing, for the right reasons — because sustainable investments generate sustainable returns
Our SECTOr
Renewable energy assets are long-term, low-risk projects that:
• are frequently backed by government guarantees, supported by national regulation and incentives, and enjoy local community support
• are real, tangible assets that generate secure recurrent cash flows
• are underlined by long-term power purchase agreements signed with large industrial offtakers and utilities
• have high residual value due to long-term lease agreements and power generation authorizations, making them comparable to concessions
• utilize free and abundant resources like wind, sun and water, and are unburdened by exposure to commodity fluctuations and costly fuel logistics
• benefit local communities because electricity production and consumption is, by nature, localized
• have a strong potential for significant capital gains due to rapidly growing demand for electricity driven by increasing fossil fuel prices and population and economic growth
• truly benefit from a portfolio effect as the more renewable energy assets one owns, the more each individual mW production facility is worth
• are economically viable and present a real alternative to fossil fuels plants thanks to new technologies
• are the only electricity alternatives in certain remote regions not connected to the national grid.
According to the United Nations, renewable energy could meet 77% of the world electricity demand by 2050
Saudi Arabia aspires to export as much solar energy in the future as it exports oil now.ali al-naimi, Saudi Minister for Petroleum and Mineral Resources
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Our COmpETITIvE EdgE
aIm has longstanding relationships with top-tier developers, including our technical partner, akuo Energy. aIm has exclusive first right of refusal on all akuo Energy projects.
akuo Energy engineers and specialists provide our teams with invaluable sector knowledge in targeting and evaluating green infrastructure assets.
Our unique combination of technical and financial expertise is a double advantage
Our ExpErTISE
assET managEmEnT
We manage private equity funds regulated by the Luxembourg market authority, building diversified portfolios of renewable energy assets. We locate infrastructure assets typically characterized by the low-risk, regular returns of debt securities and the attractive capital appreciation of pure equity investments. risk and return characteristics of each asset are rigorously analyzed to determine if they meet our exacting investment standards.
advisory sErvicEs
We offer institutional clients, clean-tech companies and government agencies unmatched insight and opportunities in the renewable energy sector. The team’s distinctive competence lies in its combination of: • Extensive green-tech investment experience• Exclusive access to industry experts • In-house engineering expertise through Akuo Energy
ProducT sTrucTuring
We structure dedicated financial products backed by long-term cash flows of renewable energy investments, ensuring stable distributions to investors with fixed annual coupons.
Tapping into a world of investment opportunities in renewable energy
Fusing international outlook with local know-how
Our gLObaL rEaCh
headquartered in the European union, our alliances with international financial institutions, prime developers, leading operators and governments extend through expansions and joint ventures to north america, the middle East, north africa (mEna) and Turkey.
2004
akuo Energy founders and shareholders create perfect Wind, an Independent power producer (Ipp) specialized in wind energy.
2007
akuo Energy is established by the initial perfect Wind team.
2005 2006
perfect Wind becomes the 2nd largest wind energy operator in France with a 600 mW portfolio.
akuo Energy founders sell perfect Wind France to Iberdrola and deliver more than 100% Irr to their investors.
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Our mILESTOnES
akuo Investment management launches akuo Investment SICar specialized in investments in European renewable energy projects assets.
akuo Investment management enters into strategic partnership with Oddo asset management and becomes advisor to two of their funds dedicated to renewable energy investments: FIp Ecoplanète and EcoSolaire.
2009
akuo Energy co-founds akuo Investment management, a dedicated fund manager that has a first refusal right on all projects developed by akuo Energy.
2008
akuo Investment management and akuo Energy launch aIm Luxembourg, an advisory company specialized in renewable energy investments.akuo Investment SICar completes its first exit and generates an Irr of 23.5%.
2010
akuo Investment SICar is endorsed and promoted by Société générale private banking.
aIm and Idinvest partners enter into an exclusive partnership to launch a renewable energy infrastructure fund.
aIm, La Compagnie benjamin de rothschild and ascent Capital win tender to manage a renewable energy fund on the behalf of the SIE, a government agency dedicated to energy investments in morocco.
aIm partners with the Islamic Corporation of development to launch a renewable Energy Fund dedicated to renewable energy investments in the 56 country members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
2011
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