Dollar-cost averaging can protect against inflation

Young couples in the USA should look at buying a first home, or moving up if the pricing in your area allows greater quality and size. In Canada most areas have more fully-valued real estate, however stock markets on both sides of the border tend to experience weakness during the 3rd year of a US Presidency, and 2011 is proving the rule. It is usually too early to pump the economy for the new election, and too late for the honeymoon effect to linger, so the third year is traditionally soft.

Staring a dollar-cost averaging program to accumulate green equity and other socially responsible investment funds is a prudent strategy. Even if you can only invest 50 dollars per month, or 100 or 200 dollars, over time this will become substantial through compound growth. And, if inflation returns in future years, you'll have bought a lot of shares at today's deflated, depressed prices.

Turtles can not only beat the hare in certain races, they can also outlive them ten or even a hundred times.

Green Mutual Funds for 2011/2012 and Longterm

Tom Konrad is a widely read green energy stocks sleuth, and this week he turned his attention once again to selecting the good Clean Energy Mutual Funds and ETFs. During the past few months, Tom has written an extended series of articles looking at clean energy mutual funds and clean energy exchange traded funds (ETFs).

Mutual funds and ETFs he considers invest in environmental services/waste management, recycling, water, and natural gas utilities. Waste management, recycling, and water each fit rather well into the clean energy context: Municipal solid waste is an excellent source of renewable biomass, recycling saves energy and so can be seen as an energy conservation measure, and water is inextricably linked to energy in many ways.

Some topics Tom Konrad has recently written on:

Costs of Clean Energy Mutual Funds
Sector Breakdown of Clean Energy Mutual Funds
Past Performance of Clean Energy Mutual Funds
Stock Picks from Clean Energy Mutual Funds
The Effectiveness of Active Management in Clean Energy
Interview with the Manager of the Top Performing Clean Energy Mutual Fund
Clean Energy ETFs in Depth
Clean Energy Mutual Fund and ETF Tax Efficiency


Read Tom Kontrad's Online Guide to Choosing Green Mutual Funds and ETFs

Green Mutual funds for 2011; Sustainable, ethical investing

Here is a list of most of the top green mutual funds and ETFs available to North American investors. To get more info on any specific fund, just copy and paste the name of the fund into Google or Bing and hit Enter.

Sustainable Green Investment funds / ETFs

Acuity Clean Environment Equity
(MUTF:CEM137)

Appleseed Fund (APPLX)


Calvert Global Alternative Energy (CGAEX)


Claymore/MAC Global Solar Index (ETF:TAN)


Claymore S&P Global Water Index (ETF:CGW)


ESG Managers Aggressive Growth Portfolio (PAGAX)


First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge US (ETF: QCLN)


First Trust ISE Water Index Fund (ETF: FIW)


Gabelli SRI Green mutual fund (SRIAX)


Guinness Atkinson Alternative Energy (GAAEX)


Market Vectors Solar Energy ETF (KWT)


New Alternatives Fund (NALFX)


PFW Water ETF (PFWAX)


Pax World Global Green Fund (PGRNX)


Pax World Womens Equity Fund (PXWEX)


PowerShares Cleantech Portfolio (ETF:PZD)


PowerShares Global Water Portfolio (ETF: PIO)


PowerShares Water Resources ETF (PHO)


PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy(ETF: PBW)


PowerShares WilderHill Progressive Energy (ETF; PUW)


Spectra Green Fund (SPEGX)


Van Eck Environmental Services ETF (EVX)


Van Eck Market Vectors Global Alternative Energy ETF(NYSE:GEX)


WELLS FARGO ADVANTAGE SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY FUND ( WSSAX)

Winslow Green Growth (WGGFX)


Winslow Green Solutions (WGSLX)


Complete list of ethical green mutual funds with links to websites

Buying Opportunity emerging in Green Energy Mutual Funds

Many alternative energy and renewable power stocks have retreated with broader markets in recent weeks, despite the almost guaranteed accelerated push for clean technology and a sustainable economic base resulting from the Gulf of Mexico calamity. You can't even begin to estimate the LOSS OF HEALTH that will result from seafood disappearing from the diets of millions of Americans...

Please have a look at some of the green mutual funds and ethical ETFs profiled on this blog, and consider starting a dollar-cost-averaging program with some of them. It's a slow and steady way to build wealth, and you can rest assured that you are indeed putting your money where your mouth and mind are!

Peace 2 All,

Joe