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Kiplinger’s Green Issue and Green Investing Going Mainstream

“No social limitations. Don't confuse eco-investing with socially screened investing. Social screens typically rule out stocks because of the products a company makes or the way it treats employees. Many environmentally oriented advisers, portfolio managers and major investors, such as the state of California, are more interested in benefiting financially from breakthrough technologies than blackballing companies for one subjective shortcoming or another.

No hype. During the Internet mania, investment banks foisted ever-more-hopeless stocks on a greedy public. Wall Street, personified by disgraced former Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget, took a well-deserved shot to its reputation. With markets in turmoil because of problems related to indecipherable mortgage securities and impenetrable hedge funds, Wall Street is less likely to play the hype-and-dump game with green stocks,” reports Jeffrey R. Kosnett, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine’s October Issue.

EIC Poll Closed: Do you support Kiplinger's "Green Issue"?

Results

77.7% "YES"

22.2% "Have Not Read"

By Yeves Perez, The Club's Founding Editor and Chief