Tareno Global Water Solutions Fund – Your water fund for sustainable investments
Three awards – our Tareno Global Water Solutions Fund impresses across the board
To help investors select the best funds, renowned organizations regularly present awards for outstanding performance. Our Tareno Global Water Solutions Fund has received multiple awards:
- Lipper Fund Award 2025 in the category “Equity Theme – Water” for its performance over three years (2022–2024).
- 5 stars from Morningstar, Overall Rating for share class I Impact USD as of 31.08.2025.
- €uro Fund Award as best water fund in 2024.
These awards underscore the strong performance and quality of our fund – a sustainable investment with a future.
Everything you need to know about the Tareno water fund
Our compact two-page brochure on the Tareno Global Water Solutions Fund provides all the key information at a glance: investment strategy, unique selling points, and details of our share classes. If you would like to find out more, we look forward to hearing from you.
Portrait
Learn more about the composition of our equity fund and the companies which we invest in.
Performance & Basic Details
Find out about the key figures and past performance of our Tareno Global Water Solutions Fund.
Share Classes & Documents
An overview of all share classes and important documents of our water fund can be found here.
Sustainability & Impact Investing
Why our water fund is considered a particularly sustainable investment? We'll tell you more about it here.
Ratings & Awards
The fact that an investment in the Tareno Global Water Solution Fund can be worthwhile has already been demonstrated several times and has led to various awards.
Publications
Here you can find additional reading material about our sustainable equity fund, which is all about water.
Focus on water funds – global challenges and investment potential
Although around 71% of the earth’s surface is covered by water, clean water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource. Around 40% of the world’s population is already affected by water scarcity. This development requires considerable investment and innovation in the water sector. The Tareno Global Water Solutions Fund offers investors the opportunity to make targeted investments in companies that are developing solutions to the challenges of water availability.
Water management and its drivers
- Although the Earth has an unimaginable amount of water – around 1.4 billion cubic kilometers – only a small proportion of it is directly usable by humans. This is because around 97.5% is salt water in our seas and oceans. Of the 2.5% fresh water, 69% is bound up in glaciers, 30% is groundwater and only 1% flows on the surface and is readily available to humans.
- Added to this is the uneven distribution of water. While Europe, and Switzerland in particular, has sufficient water supplies, the situation in other regions, such as Africa, is very different. Due to its weight, transporting water involves high costs and considerable effort and poses major challenges for water-poor regions.
- Inefficient use also exacerbates the problem. One drop of water per second from a leaking pipe wastes more than 6,500 liters per year. This illustrates how important it is to expand and maintain existing infrastructure.
- Water consumption is rising continuously: Today, we use ten times more water worldwide than we did in 1900. In Switzerland alone, the average daily consumption in 2022 was 287 liters per person – many times the minimum of 50 liters required for survival. It is worth noting that this figure only includes water consumption from public sources and not the quantities of water required for imported products and services.
Actively managed water fund with a global focus
Securing the global water supply requires considerable investment in infrastructure and innovative technologies for dealing with water. The Tareno Global Water Solutions Fund is an actively managed water fund that invests worldwide in companies along the entire value chain of the water sector.
With over 20 years of experience, our investment team specifically identifies companies that offer innovative solutions to key challenges such as water reclamation, smart irrigation systems and dealing with extreme weather events. We focus on technologies that improve access to water and promote its efficient use – without investing directly in water sources or drinking water. In this way, we ensure that you can invest sustainably with us.
The Tareno Global Water Solutions Fund impresses with its expertise and long-term performance: +17% performance in 2024 and a total of +299% since its launch in 2007 (W EUR tranche, as at 31.12.2024). In 2024, the fund was awarded the Golden Bull for the best performance of all water funds and water ETFs. The next recognition followed in May 2025: a 5-star rating from Morningstar. The fund’s sustainability approach is also regularly reviewed – and was confirmed with the highest rating of the FNG seal.
Tareno has also received several awards, including six consecutive awards from BILANZ as Asset Manager of the Year – including for our sustainable investment solution “Tareno Wasser”.
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The management of the Tareno Global Water Solutions Fund is in the hands of an experienced team with many years of expertise in the water sector. Stefan Schütz has been part of the Tareno Global Water Solutions Fund team since 2007 and has been fund manager since 2021. He is also Head of Equity Research at Tareno AG. Katja Von Krannichfeldt has been with Tareno AG since 2016 and has been fund manager of the Tareno Global Water Solutions Fund since 2023. As an ESG analyst, she is responsible for implementing the sustainability strategy in the investment processes and also manages the equity valuation models. Frank Pfeiffer has been with Tareno AG since 2015 and is responsible for the dividend strategy of Tareno AG and the technical analysis of the Tareno Global Water Solutions Fund.
This competent fund management team identifies and invests worldwide in companies that offer innovative solutions to challenges in the water sector. The Tareno Global Water Solutions Fund benefits from the in-depth analysis and active management of this team, which continuously seeks attractive investment opportunities in water technology and infrastructure.
Would you like to learn more about us and our water fund?
Do you have questions about the product, the share classes, or how you can integrate our equity fund into your investment strategy? We would be happy to discuss this with you in a non-binding consultation.