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- Green Commodities for a Complete Green Portfolio [view article]
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- Are 'Socially Responsible Investing' Funds Worthwhile? [view article]
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Green Commodities for a Complete Green Portfolio [view article]
Forthose interested in the solar storage problem that keeps solarfrom being truly viable...a solution may be at hand..www.sciencedaily.com/r... Reply
Moscardi
Green Commodities for a Complete Green Portfolio [view article]
Haha! Thanks for the advertisement, Stockaccumulator. According to my short term trading models, I would be short SOL as of June 13th, and would be up 30%+ (though it's not one of my top 20 positions, and I didn't trade it).Keep the pump and dump kind of vibes on someone else's posts perhaps. Reply
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Green Commodities for a Complete Green Portfolio [view article]
Zacks published this (see below article) 7 trading days ago about Renesola (SOL), when the price was bouncing around at about $20.Zacks Rank in Industry 1 of 44... the best of all solars. Thats number one...
See Zacks' site. This in addition to Investors Business Daily June ranking of SOL as the 4th best company (not just solars but the whole world, every company) to invest in... and in addition to Piper Jaffray's amazing careful on site research on SOL. Piper Jaffray article in June practically audited SOL, and its clean balance sheet, and they love it.
Last week's drop was clearly a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater to raise cash to feel good before the July 4th weekend... No news on SOL, just bullish: New rediculous cost of oil, and local and national governments worldwide jumping on the Solar bandwagon...
Note that SOL actually sells to other solars, and has a unique method of production and supply, recycling for creation of its product... a unique process and company.
I trust all three combined, Zacks, IBD, and Piper Jaffray.
Read this quote from Zacks last week:
"Through its history, ReneSola regularly adapted to changing market dynamics. The company is aggressively ramping up its polysilicon and solar wafer production capacities. Going forward, increased captive generation of polysilicon will improve its cost structure and enable wafer capacity expansions. Globally, rising solar wafer sales, along with escalating crude and long-term supply agreements, should collectively generate significant earnings growth. Buoyed by these positive factors and
impressive results, SOL increased its 2008 production
output and sales guidance. Accordingly, with a
bullish outlook and an attractive relative valuation, we initiate coverage of SOL with a BUY recommendation and a six-month target price of $24.25, representing 27.2% upside potential."
Note: today, at $13 SOL upside would be perhaps 40% ... Zacks published this above article 7 trading days ago when SOL price was much higher... other analysts have targets of $40, some at $55...
Time to run to your laptop and buy SOL fast... Reply
Moscardi
Green Commodities for a Complete Green Portfolio [view article]
Jgib, I agree - I talk about my criteria for holdings like EWZ on the blog. I use biocapacity and carbon metrics for macro holdings (like currency and index), but there is some soul swallowing that happens. It's inevitable in green investing. Even green holdings have questionable things. I definitely understand the underlying hypocrisy, but I do use a series of actual scientific studies to come up with the allocations. In my opinion, the overall idea is to promote green and not sacrifice returns, and a holding like EWZ fits that model. ReplyGreen Commodities for a Complete Green Portfolio [view article]
I was surprised with your entry of EWZ in a green discussion. Biggest holding is Petrobras - a socialist company producing oil, and driller offshore - how green is that - offshore RIO. I think they have beaches. ReplyGreen Commodities for a Complete Green Portfolio [view article]
as the market continues to go down, agriculture, which used to be a safe haven, now looks like it may be subject to a downward trend. Here's a pretty good podcast that discusses what to during this down market and what's going on with coal, steel, bulk shipping, and agriculture.the main idea is that individual investors dont have to act like institutional investors and this market and may be better holding cash than trying to beat the market.
www.greenfaucet.com/sh... Reply
Green Commodities for a Complete Green Portfolio [view article]
New wind ETF: PWND PowerShares Global Wind EnergyAlso I think Diversity / Social Investments is really in a different category than green. Perhaps you should start a couple of different categories such as Global Thinking and Progressive. Also what about Nukes? Reply
The Final Frontier: Social Investing [view article]
This is laughable. Socially responsible companies can lose money just like any other company. There is no correlation between being socially responsible and making money. ReplyInvestor
The Final Frontier: Social Investing [view article]
Human beings are not perfect. They say they should be sober, responsible, care about environment and watch their health, but they drink beer and wiskey, smoke, gamble and buy services of women (and men, depending on gender and orientation). You'll never make more money on what people "should" do vs. what they want to do. ReplyFinance
The Final Frontier: Social Investing [view article]
Interesting article. For a contrarian view, it's instructive to consider the antithesis of the aforementioned instruments.There were some surprising results when I evaluated the VICE fund vs. Neuberger Berman Socially Responsible Investment Fund. It trounced the socially responsible fund and the S&P500 to boot. Since I hadn't looked at the ones you mentioned here, I ran a screen going back to inception for DSI. Vice Fund exceeded the returns of those cited here going back to that start date of Nov2006.
It's been a rough start in 2008, but over the long term, I think the Vice Fund's worth a look:
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The Final Frontier: Social Investing [view article]
It'll be hard for all those San Francisco hippies to understand socially responsible investing because a Prius isn't involved anywhere and that's how they measure the amount of good they're doing to society. ReplyExchange-Traded Funds and Closed-End Funds by Asset Class, Type and Provider [view article]
can you please update this list? thanks. ReplyAre 'Socially Responsible Investing' Funds Worthwhile? [view article]
I don't know why people keep writing this article. I guess there's a new generation of "tough guys" coming on line periodically who have to torture the data to fit their political bias. This guy seems even more ignorant than usual. "Yawn." ReplyAre 'Socially Responsible Investing' Funds Worthwhile? [view article]
AS a 'mature' MBA graduate who undertook his dissertation on the adoption of SRI within the asset management industry, Michael appears to be simply trotting out the 'standard' argument/analysis from those who do not support the philosophy of SRI. Find any financial/return data to support your postion and present it as a 'fait accompli' of the evidence that adopting a SRI approach reduces potential returns. In the meantime, as Danno states, ignore all other evidence that supports the positive side of SRI.In the quantative analysis I carried out of academic studies into positive/negative returns through the adoption of SRI, the starting point, i.e., whether or not the researchers were in favour or not of SRI, often determined the outcome (though not always). In other words if the researcher felt strongly about SRI, they found a strong correlation between the 'enhanced' returns and the adoption of SRI by asset management groups. Reply
Are 'Socially Responsible Investing' Funds Worthwhile? [view article]
This guy has no idea what the heck he's talking about. There are lots of studies showing that SRI can and often does outperform from Citibank, Rabobank, and a variety of other organizations. Doesn't look like this guy did much research at all. Amateurs shouldn't be writing columns - especially when they defame a whole class of investing. Having been at treasury level at a major Fortune 500 company as well, I also know that SRI did actually change our behavior. Reply