Topics such as alternative energy and sustainability are highly popular among investors. This trend should continue in the long term. Investors have a choice: the spectrum ranges from the investment in solar certificates to broad indices depending on the risk profile. Therefore find more and more banks and investors fell on the combination of ethics and stock exchange. The frontiers are fluent alternative energy, sustainability, a positive public perception and gains so far are a harmonious Quartet. Protection of nature. Know that even companies who spend their day business not just with Sun, wind and water. And so more and more industrial enterprises the so-called sustainability report issue long ago, a sustainability report.
There is explained in detail what you are doing for the environment and against global warming. The current publication of the automotive company BMW about has already 90 pages and it nearly half as thick as the annual report for 2006. The issuers have constructed according to sustainability indices set by investors with certificates can. The price barometer of the HypoVereinsbank includes 16 companies from Europe, which are among the best in their industry on the environment. Addition, there are social and ethical aspects as well as the dividend yield. On this index, there are three express certificates (two of them with capital protection), as well as a classic Tracker, which develops one to one to the base value.
And there are more and more sophisticated products on the market. Barclays Capital currently has the top-10-INCOM sustainability certificate in the drawing. The DJ sustainability index serves as the underlying asset. From him, the 10 stocks with the highest dividend yield will be picked out every three months. Quarterly is a dynamic distribution of interest, the capital is protected at the end of the term to 100Prozent at face value. The new certificate by BNP Paribas, however, depicts five successful sustainability funds as a basket. There are five lock-in threshold. Is already the first reached the capital at this level is protected. Donation for children. With the BNP product investors hit two birds with one stone: you invest not only environmentally friendly, but also do something for the youth. Per excellent certificate (until 1 June) BNP will donate one euro to the SOS Children’s villages.