10/19 - Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Which Clean Energy Investments Are Right For You

Even after you've changed all our lightbulbs, gotten a home energy retrofit, started biking to work, and installed solar panels, there is still a way to reduce your carbon footprint and benefit from the transition to a clean energy economy.  Your investments are ownership of real companies, doing business in the real economy.  You probably own parts of large oil, gas, and coal companies without even knowing it.  Even most Socially Responsible mutual funds owned BP before the Gulf Oil disaster, because they are concerned with a broad range of issues of which the environment is only one, and Peak Oil may not even be on their radar.

This seminar will give you the tools you need to decide which clean energy investments are right for you, if you have only a few thousand dollars in an IRA or have a good million tucked away for a secure retirement.  We'll discuss the pros and cons of clean energy mutual funds, exchange traded funds (ETFs), and stock portfolios.  For investors who want to use mutual funds or ETFs, you should leave the talk knowing which ones are best for you.  For investors interested in a stock portfolio, we'll discuss a variety ways to build a portfolio and how to balance greenery, potential return, and risk, with individual stock examples.

Guest Speaker:

Tom Konrad, Editor, AltEnergyStocks

About the presenter: Tom Konrad is a portfolio manager who manages money for environmentally minded individuals and institutions.  He is the Editor of AltEnergyStocks, a leading free website for news and analysis about Clean and Alternative Energy stocks featuring a stock list of over 250 publicly traded companies organized into 30 subsectors such as Solar and Alternative Transportation.  Tom has a Ph.D. in mathematics from Purdue University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.  He recently moved to the Northeast from Colorado where he served as the Policy Committee chair for the Colorado Renewable Energy Society, an ASES chapter.  He currently serves on NESEA Finance Committee, and will be running a workshop on clean energy investing at Building Energy 11.

Admission: Free

Location: Western New England College (WNEC), Sleith Hall, Rm S111, 1215 Wilbraham Rd, Springfield, MA 01119

Directions: http://www1.wnec.edu/visiting/index.cfm?selection=doc.1198

Contact Information: Mike Kocsmiersky, 413) 883-3144, kosbro@yahoo.com