Markets Overview
Environmental Capital Markets
The growth of the environmental markets, specifically ecosystem services, presents opportunities for investors to profit from stewardship and conservation, however in order for investors to access these markets, more effective methods of placing capital with environmental projects and enterprises, and liquidity for the resulting credits and or debt and equity must be present.
Nexii is creating market mechanisms that support more efficient ecosystem services markets including:
• Voluntary Carbon • Water Quality (Nutrient Trading)• Wetland Mitigation & Habitat Banking
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Transferable Development Rights
• Catch Shares & Sustainable Fisheries
• Future Markets for Water Supply and Stormwater Runoff
NeXii's support of the ecosystem markets revolve around providing the following services:
• Capital raising for environmental projects including carbon, wetland mitigation, biodiversity and estuarine• Capital raising for fisheries trusts and CQE’s
• Direct linkage to regional ecosystem platforms increasing access to credit flow using "CORE" or Credit Order Routing Engine
• Direct linkage with all major environmental registries
• Capital raising for biodiversity funds
• Efficient platform for monetizing ecosystem credits and transferable development rights
• Access to multiple content service providers (Conservation Registry, Landserver, Species Banking)
• The use of RITES or Restricted Interest Transfer & Exchange Securities to increase both liquidity and fungibility of eco-credits
Social Capital Markets
The social capital markets include a diverse global set of participants focusing on a wide range of issues and challenges globally. These organizations can be structured as traditional non-profits (Save the Children, etc.), hybrid for-profits (B-Corps or L3Cs) or more traditional for-profit corporations (Seventh Generation or Patagonia) that address social and environmental issues and opportunities directly through how their product or services are delivered.
Our Social Capital Markets focus includes both for profit and non-profits in the following areas:
• Sustainable Enterprises - Public, Private• Microfinance
• Community Investment
Our social markets support services include:
• Attract private capital from an expanded list of social investors• The use of social metrics to measure SROI
• Provide a higher level of transparency and liquidity for social investment opportunities
• Provide secondary liquidity for unregistered microfinance and CDFI debt
• Apply traditional and alternative capital markets financing structures to social markets Creation of “SERTS” or Social Enterprise Royalty Trust Securities allowing investors to participate in the growth in income of a private enterprise in the form of a dividend
• Create an awareness of social and environmental investing amongst a wider universe of market participants
• Establish inputs where entrepreneurs can keep investors up to date of the progress of their enterprise
• Provide an infrastructure where brokers and investment banks can expand the range of services provided to their clients
• Establish an accreditation process by which we screen companies prior to offering of securities