Bankinter Investment launches an alternative investment vehicle with which it plans to attract 175 million

MADRID, 27 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Bankinter Investment has launched Ecualia, a new alternative investment vehicle to offer its clients investments linked to sectors that will contribute to advancing in the fulfillment of the long-term environmental objectives established, both at European and national level, and with which it foresees raise a volume of capital close to 175 million euros.

Bankinter's investment banking subsidiary has thus created its seventeenth alternative investment vehicle, which is structured with the aim of offering Bankinter's high-net-worth clients priority access to investments in sectors with great growth potential in the coming years, mostly linked both to the environmental field and to improving the efficiency of energy and natural resources.

In a first stage, Bankinter Investment is analyzing specific opportunities in sectors such as sustainable mobility, decarbonization, energy rehabilitation, circular economy and water management and treatment, although the vehicle is open to opportunities in other sectors that fit with the investment strategy From the bottom.

The minimum investment required in Ecualia will be 200,000 euros, subject to diversification criteria established internally so that the client's assets do not excessively concentrate their investments on a specific sector or asset.

Regarding the investment term, a time horizon of seven years is proposed, with expectations of an attractive return for the investor, to which recurring distributions are added once the portfolio is fully invested.

The manager of the new vehicle will be Plenium Partners, an independent investment and management company in the renewable energy sector. Bankinter Investment and Plenium Partners already have a consolidated track record in alternative investment after launching the Helia Renovables venture capital fund, in its successive editions Helia I, II, III and IV.

As reported in a statement, Bankinter seeks to anticipate future trends that will contribute to the development of critical sectors and activities to achieve the environmental objectives agreed at European level, such as the Net Zero initiative or those set at national level for the decarbonisation of sectors to through the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan 2021-2030 (PNIEC).