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Screening For the Best Clean Energy ETF
by Vic Patel
There are over a dozen major Clean Energy ETFs available to investors. But which one is the best one to put your hard earned money into? Best can mean different things to different people based on their investment preferences and risk profile.
In this article, I will provide a more empirical based reason behind why I believe that PZD is the most attractive Clean Energy ETF at the moment. I have based on my analysis of 4 primary factors: liquidity, diversification, recent price action, and last but not least expense ratio.
Liquidity has to be a major consideration in the...
List of Alternative Energy and Clean Energy ETFs
This list was last updated on 4/27/2022.
ETFs are Exchange-listed funds which pool investor's money for the purpose of making Alternative Energy investments. Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) track a specified Alternative Energy index. This list also includes closed-end mutual funds and other pooled investments which trade on exchanges.
ALPS Clean Energy ETF (ACES)
ASN Groenprojectenfonds (ASNGF.AS)
Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF.L)
Defiance Next Gen H2 ETF (HDRO)
Evolve Funds Automobile Innovation Index ETF (CARS.TO)
First Trust Global Wind Energy Index (FAN)
First Trust Nasdaq Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index Fund (GRID)
First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy Index Fund (QCLN)
Foresight Solar Fund Limited (FSFL.L)
Global X Lithium...
A Year Later: Market Up, Clean Energy Down
Tom Konrad, CFA When I called the peak a year ago, it was too soon for the broad market, but not for clean energy stocks. I think both have room to fall, but clean energy may bottom first. Almost a year ago at the start of June, I wrote saying "we're near the peak" of the stock market. I was too early, and admitted it in August. But I also said that it was a bad time to be in the market: the risks of a decline far outweighed the potential gains of remaining in an...
Green Energy Investing For Beginners, Part II: How Much To Invest
Tom Konrad, CFA In Green Energy Investing for Beginners, Part I, gave information to guide the choice of green investment vehicles (mutual funds, ETFs, or stocks.) This article is intended to help investors decide how much of their money to put into those vehicles. An informed decision of how much to invest in green energy is at least as important as how you make the investment. The choice between green Exhange Traded Funds (ETFs) and green Mutual funds rests on a difference of about one percent per year, caused by differences in fees. Yet in the first three quarters...
Vacation, Updated Graphs, and 2 Conferences
Vacation and Meet Me at the Colorado Renewable Energy Conference or the International Peak Oil Conference. Tom Konrad, Ph.D., CFA I'm on vacation this week, so I'm going to leave you with a preview from a presentation I will be giving at the Colorado Renewable Energy Conference on Aug 29 in Golden Colorado. I'm updating my Investing in Renewable Energy presentations, and I've been able to incorporate a lot of the work Charles and I did on clean energy mutual funds and ETFs since January this year. ETF Holdings Revealed Charles did some in-depth work...
