Veridien Global Investors manages SMAs for institutional clients. Veridien is a women owned and led asset management business founded in 2019 by Ariane Mahler, CIO/CEO. With 33 years of experience, and as a pioneer in the zero carbon space, she launched Veridien as a direct impact solution believing that existing zero carbon strategies are not addressing what is arguably the biggest global economic risk, climate change. Previously, in 2015, she launched Carbon Zero, the most ambitious emission reduction fund of its kind at the time, for La Francais Asset Management ahead of COP21. In 2018, she started Veridien’s Climate Action Strategy, with a dual purpose of delivering attractive risk adjusted returns, while investing directly in global decarbonization. Veridien’s Climate Action Strategy is a high-conviction long only equity strategy with 40-50 positions, with the top ten holdings representing ~50% of the portfolio. Our portfolio has greater than 50% of revenue derived from, or greater than 50% of CAPEX or OPEX spent on decarbonization technologies or business models. This is in stark contrast to the majority of so called ‘climate action strategies’ that are just large cap tech funds masquerading as climate funds. Our goal is NOT to invest in low emission companies, but instead to invest in companies with technologies and business models driving decarbonization. We use a rigorous and conservative Risk Adjusted Target Price (RATP) value approach to select the best companies with the most attractive upside potential.