GreenFinance: Clean Energy Investing
by Lita Epstein, GreenDaily.com
Want to invest in a portfolio that focuses on clean and renewable energy providers? Take a look at the ETF, PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy (AMEX: PBW) based on the WilderHill Clean Energy Index, which has signifcant holdings in solar power companies, as well as other renewable energy products. An ETF is a basket of stocks that is traded on a stock exchange as one entity. You can buy and sell this basket of stocks just as you would a company's stock using the symbol PBW.
The Wilderhill Clean Energy Index includes companies that seek to benefit from a transition toward the use of cleaner energy. Stocks chosen for this index include companies that focus on clean energy technology and pollution prevention.
Companies held by the fund are primarily small-cap companies with an average market cap of $3.4 billion. So this ETF is not for the faint of heart. Expect returns to be volatile. While year-to-date returns according to Morningstar are 25.64%, you must expect wild swings because the benchmark for this ETF has only 42 stocks.
The fund is managed by PowerShares Capital Management, which was founded in 2002. It's lead portfolio manager is John Southard Jr., who worked at Chicago Investment Analytics (bought by Charles Schwab) before joining PowerShares Capital. The five largest stock holdings in the fund include: SunPower Corporation, American Superconductor Corporation, Suntech Power Holdings Co., First Solar, and Yingli Green Energy Holdings Company.
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WARNING: Investing in common equity of public companies is a high risk, high potential reward activity. Owning investments in individual alternative energy companies is for high risk investors only, and medium risk investors should consider green mutual funds, clean energy funds, renewable power index funds and other sector plays. Even then, these should be owned as part of a widely diversified portfolio. There is a gathering mania for investing in publicly-traded alternative energy companies, similar to the computer, technology, internet and banking / real estate booms of the past two decades. There will be some nasty corrections along the way, and some years from now when they come crashing down en masse, the world will still benefit from all the amazingly advanced clean and efficient energy technology created during the bull run. (Above note re-written March 2009 as my earlier prediction of a market top and a crash in the sector starting in August '09 was hastened by the credit markets collapse and began in August 2008, before the bubble had fully formed. Of all the sectors in the equity markets, clean energy has the best prospects to assume market leadership and public favour; we are bouncing aong the bottom still, and those who have followed our guidance to begin including (in a judiciously blended portfolio of cash, bonds, stocks and yes, um... real estate) green energy investment funds dollar-cost-averaging programs in Winter and Spring of 2009 are well positioned for longterm capital growth.)
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