ARISTOTELES, the IoT platform by Kaiserwetter, embraced by IST3 INFRASTRUKTUR GLOBAL

- IST3 INFRASTRUKTUR GLOBAL (IST3 IG), the discretionary private infrastructure equity vehicle of IST3 Investment Foundation and one of the leading Swiss infrastructure funds, has decided to rely on ARISTOTELES as an integrative IoT platform for maximizing return and minimizing risk of its portfolio

- This digital innovation invented by Kaiserwetter, which has won multiple innovation awards in 2018, leverages Smart Data Analytics and sets a new standard in the area of Predictive Analytics/ Machine Learning

- ARISTOTELES will cover all of IST IG's direct investments in energy generation with the full technical and financial functionalities of the platform. In addition to that, all other infrastructure investments will be part of the financial portfolio management within ARISTOTELES

Hamburg/ Zurich, January 9, 2019 - Kaiserwetter Energy Asset Management GmbH (Kaiserwetter) has signed an agreement for the use of its IoT platform ARISTOTELES with Swiss based IST3 Investment Foundation.

ARISTOTELES will allow IST3 IG to maximize the performance of its investment portfolio through an integrated platform giving an immediate insight on asset performance over the entire investment cycle. Smart Data Analytics combined with algorithm-based functions of Predictive Simulation give IST3 IG the tools to achieve high level of transparency on actual asset performance and identify any gaps at an early stage. ARISTOTELES aggregates technical, meteorological and especially financial data to provide a structured data basis. It relies on implemented algorithms to offer a large variety of information that will help maximize asset performance.

Hanno Schoklitsch, CEO and Founder of Kaiserwetter, commented on the signing of the contract: "We are very happy that IST3 IG has decided to rely on our digital innovations and for maximizing asset performance via a new approach. ARISTOTELES and its integrated functions for Smart Data Analytics and Predictive Analytics consistently highlight the amazing possibilities inherent to the use of data and its transported information," he said.

The CEO of the IST3 IG, Markus Anliker, added: "There is nothing more valuable than monitoring how investment assets are performing in real time. ARISTOTELES extracts the data that we need to analyze performance and remotely control a global portfolio with dispersed assets."

ARISTOTELES, which uses the performance of SAP IoT Leonardo, is an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that allows investment funds, infrastructure funds, banking institutions and energy companies to manage the technical and financial performance of renewable energy and other infrastructure portfolios.

ARISTOTELES enables Kaiserwetter's customers to technically and financially minimize and control investment risks across national borders on the basis of a manipulation-free and structured database.Investors themselves will have the main tools they need to protect their investments and to maximize their assets' transparency and return with long-lasting effect. The services of ARISTOTELES are defined as Data as a Service (DaaS) and therefore the use of ARISTOTELES does not require any intervention in the customer's existing IT infrastructure.

About IST3 INFRASTRUKTUR GLOBAL
IST3 IG is part of the IST Investment Foundation, the largest independent investment foundation in Switzerland, established in 1967. From its offices in Zurich and Lausanne, a total of around CHF 9 billion in retirement capital is managed by more than 500 Swiss pension funds. The IST Investment Foundation offers transparent, cost-efficient and first-class investment solutions in the traditional and alternative spectrum. As part of IST's alternative investment offering, IST3 IG's direct infrastructure investment strategy aims to pool Swiss pension fund capital in order to invest in a diversified manner in infrastructure investments in OECD countries.

About Kaiserwetter Energy Asset Management GmbH

Kaiserwetter is the internationally leading "Data as a Service" Enertech company. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Germany Kaiserwetter combines the opportunities offered by the Internet of Things (IoT) with Smart Data Analytics, Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning to digitize and automate the management of renewable energy facilities to achieve maximum performance.

This is made possible by the highly awarded IoT platform "ARISTOTELES". Developed by Kaiserwetter, this innovative and cloud-based IoT platform relies on the capabilities inherent to digitalization and intelligent data analysis to aggregate and correlate all technical, meteorological and especially financial data, in an effort of reaching the following goals: (1) maximizing the return, (2) minimizing investment risks, (3) reaching maximum transparency.

Kaiserwetter offers its specialized digital services to investment funds, private equity investors, infrastructure funds, banking institutions as well as to utilities on a global level. The company has offices in Hamburg, Madrid, New York, and is currently set to expand into China and India.

For additional information about ARISTOTELES, please visit: www.aristoteles.energy

Press contact:

Kaiserwetter Energy Asset Management GmbH

Falk von Kriegsheim

fvk@kaiserwetter.eu
Telephone: +49 (0)40 530566 100

Mobile phone: +49 (0)172 9837109

www.kaiserwetter.energy

IST3 Investment Foundation

Henning Buller

henning.buller@istfunds.ch

Telephone: +41 44 455 37 05

Fax: +41 44 455 37 01

www.istfunds.ch