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From Benedicte Gravrand: Just as consumers can play a vital role in the direction of policy making and global industries, so do investors. Consumers want a better control of the climate change and so do investors. As a result, a confluence of green or environmentally friendly financial products is emerging, with good investor base and good returns. These are no longer the days when you had to sacrifice your hopes for riches if you wanted to invest in ethical financial products.

Green or environmental hedge funds are growing popular. They allow invertors to put their money in emissions trading and carbon credits, environmental companies’ equity and debt and renewable energy projects. Hedge funds are perfect for this sector as they can assemble capital quickly, react to arbitrage and cover product subsets such as equities, carbon credits and water rights. Environment has become a global opportunity and investments’ current hottest trend.

A recent release announced that Energy Hedge Fund Center (energyhedgefunds.com) is now tracking 560 energy and energy-related hedge funds; 130 of which in Europe, most of the rest in the U.S. There has been a new wave of fund formation since the beginning of 2007, as well as a renewed interest in the creation of fund of funds. These funds are still seen, apparently, as an asset diversification play due to its non-correlation. The center is also tracking 180 commodity funds with exposure to energy or energy-related commodities. Inves......................

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