About
The energy transition creates
repeating mispricing.
Energy transition expertise does not automatically translate to alpha. Alpha comes from deviations to baseline expectations, not the trend itself. Capital intensity, regulatory interference, tech-driven cost curves, and legacy anchoring create persistent dispersion between winners and losers. We capture this dispersion through bottom-up relative stock picking.
Our differences
Different in four ways.
Energy transition
specialists
We do not stray from our 30 years of domain expertise. We specialise in all facets of the worldwide energy transition and the electrotechnology required for this transformation.
Fundamental
stock pickers
This is not a thematic beta strategy. We are agnostic to the pace of the energy transition and profit from relative outcomes, pairing beneficiaries against structurally impaired peers with explicit asymmetric pay-off targets set at entry.
CO₂ short
portfolio
As part of our disciplined process, we use proprietary analysis to quantify the carbon emissions of every investment we make. The result is a portfolio that is structurally short carbon emissions, a byproduct of our fundamental rigour. This analytical edge is part of what makes us unique.
High Asia weight
Approximately 50% Asia. The industrial technology supply chain for electrification runs through Japan, Korea, and Greater China, and our team has deep institutional long/short experience across these markets, as well as the US and Europe.
One portfolio
4 key verticals
Each vertical is managed by dedicated sector experts with extensive longitudinal knowledge of their universe.
Energy Infrastructure
Renewable generation, grid transmission and distribution, battery energy storage systems, nuclear
Electric Devices
Electric vehicles, batteries, heat pumps, HVAC systems, industrial electrification
Technology
Power semiconductors, industrial automation, software, AI, green finance, blockchain
Critical Commodities
Copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt, aluminium, uranium-essential materials for the energy transition
Investment process
Our disciplined, repeatable approach flows through five stages.
- Clearly defined
- Global
- Developed markets
- Large and liquid
- Fundamental
- Through multiple cycles
- Variant viewpoints
- Asymmetric pay-off
- Forced ranking
- Catalysts
- Pattern recognition
- Idea recycling
- Bottom-up
- Constant monitoring
- Return capture & stop loss rules
- Zero net, low Beta
- High idiosyncratic risk ~75%
- Diversified (~50 longs)
- Low short concentration
Partner with us.
Clean Alpha Partners works exclusively with institutional investors, family offices, and qualified fund allocators seeking sophisticated, market-neutral exposure to the energy transition. Please submit your contact request using the contact form or contact us directly.
Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
99 Queen’s Road, Central, Hong Kong