About

Rooted in expertise.
Driven by edge.

A proprietary trading firm operating across the global suite of environmental markets, with the analytical depth to interpret them well.

Founder

Bas Vreede

Founder & Portfolio Manager

Founder and Portfolio Manager of Marel Capital AG, with over a decade of experience in financial markets, spanning asset management, equity derivatives brokerage, and trading across renewable energy and environmental commodities.

Bas traded European environmental markets at Mind Energy, where he also set up and established the US markets business, before joining Smartest Energy as Head of Renewable Trading, building knowledge, signal intelligence and relationships across both sides of the Atlantic.

Background

Built his career at the intersection of renewable energy, power markets, and environmental commodities, developing deep expertise across European and North American regulatory frameworks, market microstructure, and cross-commodity relationships.

Philosophy

Environmental markets are complex and often fundamentally mispriced. We look across regulatory frameworks, participant behaviour, and cross-market relationships to understand and interpret them correctly. Marel Capital exists to deploy systematic trading strategies around that asymmetry.

Marel Capital

Founded in Zug, Switzerland in 2026 as a proprietary trading firm. Operating across the global suite of environmental markets with proprietary research and signal capabilities from day one.

Systems Intelligence
Framework

Marel Capital was founded to operate across all major environmental markets simultaneously, rather than in regional silos. Monitoring the structural connections between these markets drives our strategy.

Our approach is built on the conviction that price in environmental markets is set by compliance behaviour, regulatory timelines, and participant positioning, not by pure supply and demand in the traditional sense.

The variables that drive price across these markets rotate in importance with each regime. Sentiment, supply-demand, regulatory catalysts, and cross-product fundamentals each take their turn. By covering the full environmental complex, we identify opportunities across markets.

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Regulatory Mapping
Legislative calendars, consultation timelines, and implementation schedules tracked across all major jurisdictions. Positioning ahead of policy catalysts.
02
Political Intelligence
Government incentive structures, electoral cycles, and the translation of policy objectives into market-moving announcements.
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Fundamental Analysis
Supply-demand modelling, compliance obligation forecasting, registry flow analysis, and cross-market arbitrage identification.
04
Quantitative Research
Proprietary signal framework integrating market microstructure, cross-market relationships, and quantitative fundamentals.

Direction in markets. Discipline in execution. Curiosity about what's next.

Marel Capital — Investment philosophy
Values

Four principles that shape every decision we make.

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Trading
Navigating complex global environmental and energy markets with insight, structure, and discipline.
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Trust
Strong relationships with global counterparties and institutions, accessing opportunities within microstructures.
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Today
Disciplined, controlled growth across all trading activities, focused on quality of execution over volume.
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Tomorrow
Embracing emerging markets, regulatory shifts, and new asset classes to stay ahead of the energy transition.

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