The asset manager’s interest in Hong Kong comes as the city pursues parallel goals of becoming a hub for both green finance and family offices, the corporations set up by wealthy families to manage investments, succession and philanthropy.Jonathan Green (left), investment director, and Johnny Kahlbetzer, CEO, of Twynam Group, pose in Wan Chai on December 20, 2023. Photo: Edmond So
Kahlbetzer and Twynam’s investment director, Jonathan Green, came just before the holidays to meet with Hong Kong family offices and other professional investors to promote Twynam’s Earth Fund, an early-stage venture capital fund.
Set up in early 2023, the fund aims to raise US$50 million to invest in companies focused on technologies to reduce carbon emissions. It has already signed up prominent investors including US retail giant Walmart heir Lukas Walton and Swinburne University of Technology in…
