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In late-2007 Kiplinger.com frankly described the Winslow Green Growth Fund and its sister Winslow Green Solutions as "the two best green funds". A year earlier the fund had been named the Best Socially Screened Fund for 2006 by Kiplinger Personal Finance magazine.
In 2007 the fund's manager, Jack Robinson, was named the #2 fund manager in the aggressive growth category in the Barron's/Value Line annual mutual fund survey, and #10 equity mutual fund manager overall.
In the same year it was ranked by Lipper as the top small-cap growth fund over a three-year period, as well as #4 over five years and #39 over one year.
What else makes it so special?
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Socially responsible mutual funds are a fast-growing sector of the investment business. Most funds need a recognized index against which they can measure their progress. The result is an increasing number of indices - most introduced in just the past couple of years - that are designed to provide guidance to investors in green and socially responsible investment products.
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Europe is already at the forefront of the renewable energy business - although the US and China are coming on fast - and investment in the sector is expanding rapidly.
A report from Frost & Sullivan, "European Green Investment Market - Investment Analysis", finds that compounded annual average growth of around 18 per cent is expected between 2007 and 2014. This will boost the green investment market from 180.4 billion euros to 572.9 billion euros.
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June 20th, 2008
Green Mutual Funds - Choosing Sectors
The world of clean tech is vast, with numerous sub-sectors. How do green mutual funds choose which areas to invest in?
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Why invest in green mutual funds?
Surely it is because you believe they will do well and deliver you a good return. Who would invest in a fund - no matter how worthy - they believed would lose them money?
Certainly many investors choose a green or a socially responsible fund ahead of others because they believe that they are thereby doing some good in the world. But I am sure that most - virtually all - of them would not invest in a fund they were sure was doomed to lose money.
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Well, I don't believe that climate change is just an issue that's convenient to bring up during a campaign. I believe it's one of the greatest moral challenges of our generation.
- Barack Obama (2007)
If elected, Barack Obama will be the greenest president ever in the White House. His policies include:
1. Invest $150 billion over 10 years in clean energy.
2. Reduce carbon emissions 80 per cent by 2050.
3. Double energy research and development funding.
4. Create a Clean Technologies Venture Capital Fund, funded at $10 billion per year for five years.
5. Require that 25 per cent of electricity be from renewable sources by 2025.
Here, over four parts, is a brief guide to possible investment implications for the cleantech sector.
* Wind Power
* Solar Energy
* Fuel Cells
* Biofuels
May 29th, 2008
General Electric - A Wind Energy World Leader
General Electric is America's largest supplier of wind energy turbines, and one of the biggest in the world. It is a business that is growing rapidly.
Wind energy remains a relatively small part of General Electric's business, but it is a rapidly growing segment, with 2007 revenues of more than $4 billion, an eight-fold increase since 2002. The company is a world leader in this business, and it is the dominant supplier in the US, which has become the world's fastest-growing market.
In 2007 it installed 2,342 MW of new capacity in the US - double the amount of the previous year - which was 45 per cent of the US total for that year. In the January-March 2008 quarter it supplied 442.5 MW of the total 1,400 MW of new capacity that was installed in America.
In its announcement of disappointing January-March results, GE specifically cited wind energy. It said orders for this business were up 40 per cent from the 2007 fourth quarter, with earnings up 22 per cent from the 2007 first quarter.
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The announcement by Canadian company Keewatin Windpower, listed on the OTC, that it is to proceed with the acquisition of sister company Sky Harvest Windpower is another step towards realizing the goal of a big wind energy project in south-west Saskatchewan.
Sky Harvest holds land rights to develop the project on 8,500 acres of land and proposes a 150 MW facility.
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The new report from US Department of Energy, "20% Wind Energy by 2030", simply emphasizes that the United States is the big new wind power market - and the big new wind power investment opportunity.
The report presents a scenario whereby wind energy could provide 20 per cent of US electricity by 2030. Such a scenario "while ambitious could be feasible if the significant challenges identified in this report are overcome."
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News this week that Alternative Construction Technologies of Florida has been selected as a main supplier to Modular Space Systems - a builder of modular buildings for a variety of governmental applications - is further evidence of the company's success in promoting its patented structural insulated panels [SIP].
A press release says that Modular Space Systems is to use the panels "as its only product of choice wherever structural insulated panel products are used," which effectively means around 80 per cent of business for Modular Space Systems.
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Established in 2000, Nextgen is an Australian leader in the brokering of energy derivatives and environmental commodities. It is also a significant data provider, and it plans to launch an asset management division.
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