A tax-efficient way to play the alternative energy space

Ed Guinness, manager of Guinness Asset Management's EIS funds, explains how investors can access alternative energy through tax-efficient structures.

Alternative energy investing is often perceived as an area only for extreme tree-huggers and climate doom-mongers. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth, as demonstrated by the $2.5bn investment made in solar projects at the end of 2012 by Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings in the US. Investors of all kinds are beginning to look at ways to include alternative energy projects within their portfolios. Investors looking for opportunities less correlated to the broad markets and with the potential to provide an inflation hedge should find the steady returns possible f...