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Green Mutual Funds - The Attractions
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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.
Cesar de Brito, senior portfolio manager for the Clean Technology Fund at Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch, has written an article, "Ten Good Reasons to Invest in a Clean Tech Fund", which outlines why the sector should make money. (And I can really only discern eight reasons.) Here they are:
* Growing political support - we can certainly see that with the two current US presidential candidates.
* Regulation and incentives and creating a vibrant market - countries around the world are increasingly imposing quite strict environmental targets on companies and consumers.
* Supported by long-term economic trends - demand for natural resources continues to grow.
* A wide range of emerging opportunities - more and more clean tech companies and investment funds are being created.
* Answering the demands of socially responsible investors.
* Materiality of inaction is driving demand - this means that diminishing natural resources and higher prices is forcing companies to adopt new strategies that favor the clean tech sector.
* Huge growth exposition and market appetite for those stocks - renewable energy is still a relatively small part of global energy demand, meaning that the growth potential is huge.
* Wider sector diversification.
June 20th, 2008
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