hep, a Baden-Württemberg-based specialist in solar parks and solar investments, has received the Sachwerte Award in the “Sustainability” category from the trade journal “Mein Geld.” An independent jury with many years of experience evaluated providers of open-ended and closed-end funds regulated by the KAGB in seven categories. With its implementation of sustainable finance regulations, hep goes beyond the required minimum standards.
New on the market: an independent jury award
During a festive event at Frankfurt’s Logenhaus zur Einigkeit, the Mein Geld Medien Group presented its Real Asset Awards for the first time to winners in seven categories for outstanding achievements. A distinctive feature of the award is the independent jury composed of experienced representatives from the real asset investment industry. Isabelle Hägewald, Managing Director of the Mein Geld Medien Group, is pleased that this award “provides investors with an important barometer of quality.”
In the real asset investment market, hep has been successfully active on the German capital market for over ten years as a provider of closed-end investment funds. “From the very beginning, our investment offerings have consisted of real asset investments that invest exclusively in solar projects,” explains Thorsten Eitle, co-founder of hep and Chief Sales Officer. “This has allowed hep to establish itself in the market and is valued by investors. We are delighted that our commitment to sustainability is being recognized with an award that stands out from others in the market as an independent jury prize.”
Laudatory speech honors hep’s high level of ambition
The laudatory speech honoring hep as the winner of the Sustainability Award was delivered by Roland Kölsch, who has served as managing director of Qualitätssicherungsgesellschaft Nachhaltiger Geldanlagen mbH (QNG) since 2017. As a wholly owned subsidiary of the professional association Forum Nachhaltige Geldanlagen e.V. (FNG), it contributes to the quality assurance of sustainable investments through the certification of financial products, expert opinions, and the development of standards and services.
According to Kölsch, hep “pursues its mission with a high level of ambition; [it] is professionally structured and already applies those elements of sustainable finance regulations that are more difficult to implement and, on balance, are stricter, even going beyond the required minimum standards.”
With the current hep investment fund, investors are investing in solar projects in the target countries: the U.S., Japan, the EU (particularly Germany), and Canada. The fund is structured in accordance with Article 9 of the EU Regulation on sustainability-related disclosure requirements in the financial services sector, and its economic activities are consistent with the Taxonomy Regulation. This ensures compliance with the highest sustainability standards for financial products currently available on the market.