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Guinness Asset Management launches Guinness EIS 5 to invest in UK sustainable energy companies

Guinness Asset Management’s Guinness EIS 5 – a discretionary managed service will invest in UK sustainable energy companies through the tax-efficient EIS structure – is now open for investment.

 
Guinness EIS 5 is targeting attractive risk-weighted returns by making investments in UK sustainable energy companies which have predictable revenues, low technology risk and low correlation with other asset classes.
 
Investment opportunities include solar photovoltaic, wind, hydro electric, anaerobic digestion and biomass projects. EIS 5 aims to deliver returns in excess of GBP1.50 to investors (including GBP0.30 EIS income tax relief) net of all fees per GBP1.00 invested.
 
Guinness EIS 5 will be managed by Shane Gallwey and Edward Guinness who bring extensive private equity and renewable energy experience and have raised and invested Guinness’ existing EIS offerings.  They are supported by an investment committee that complements the team with the experience of Tim Guinness, Tom Hill-Norton, Andrew Martin Smith and Lord Flight, chairman of the EIS Association.
 
Gallwey says: "We continue to see a wealth of investment opportunities in the small-scale renewables sector. The UK has a maturing renewables sector with falling technology costs and increasingly experienced developers. The country’s high and rising energy costs has led many businesses to look to renewables as a way of reducing these costs.
 
“Our pipeline includes exciting new investment opportunities as well as follow-on investments in existing companies."
 
Edward Guinness says: "We are seeing many investors making EIS investments as a means of diversifying their portfolios, generating returns with low correlations to the equity markets and making investments that have attractive returns and tax benefits."

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