SIRF Calls Out EcoAlpha Asset Management

EcoAlpha Asset Management began operations last October touting a highly experienced team and the prospect of cashing in on a ‘multi-decade global spending cycle’ as governments and private companies come to grips with new environmental challenges (investors get to feel good about themselves too!). But the firm’s CEO Matthew Fitzmaurice and chairman Win Neuger have a more complicated history than their official bios would lead you to believe.

“Neuger and Fitzmaurice want institutional capital--and plenty of it,” writes Roddy Boyd of the Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation. “What they don't want, in all probability, are probing questions.”

Red flags in EcoAlpha leaders’ past

Boyd explains that Neuger played an important and...