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Dave Yates (GrandPAH)_1

If you get a chance to tune in to this edition of Consuelo Mack's Wealth Track, it looks like this might be the episode they asked me for information regarding ROI and home HVAC equipment. We don't get her show on local edu stations, so if you see it, I'd appreciate knowing how they handled the info - especially if they bring up mod-con boilers.

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This week, WealthTrack explores how you can make green by being green in both your home and your investments. The steep rise in energy costs has brought new attention to energy-saving and environmentally friendly investments. Many major corporations including General Electric, Walmart and Goldman Sachs have adopted firm-wide environmental policies and are using them as a screen to decide what they invest in and with whom they do business. And Wall Street has taken notice of the mainstreaming of green. Professional investors are now pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into alternative energy companies and the first exchange-traded fund to track alternative energy firms, the PowerShares Wilderhill Clean Energy Portfolio is up about 12% since its inception in March of last year. Earlier this year it was up more than 50%.

So how can you benefit from being green? This week we’ll be looking at savings you can make in your home and money to be made in your investments.

For business ideas about green investing. we’ll be talking with Julie Fox Gorte, Chief Social Investment Strategist at The Calvert Group, which is the nation’s largest family of socially responsible mutual funds. Julie led the way in Calvert’s construction of a giant database of social and environmental performance for more than 10,000 securities.

Thirty-five years ago this month, the first socially responsible mutual fund was created. The Pax World Balanced Fund, which is a mixture of stocks and bonds, has been managed by Chris Brown since 1998. He took over the management from his dad, who co-founded the fund. They both have shown that one need not sacrifice financial performance by investing in socially responsible companies. Over the past ten years, The Pax World Balanced Fund has ranked among the top nine percent of all balanced funds tracked by Lipper Analytical Services.

As you ponder your mounting electricity and fuel bills, you are probably wondering how you can save money in your home. We have some concrete answers for you from Bill Paul, one of the most knowledgeable energy and environmental journalists around, so have your notebooks handy. Bill used to cover these beats at the Wall Street Journal. He is now editor of EarthPreservers, a nationally distributed environmental newsletter for school kids. His latest book, “Energy Crunch” is due out in a few months.

Following Bill’s lead, our action point this week focuses on saving energy and money around your home. We’ll learn how to help the environment and help ourselves at the same time.

If you want to revisit any of our past programs, remember we have transcripts of all of our shows on our website, www.wealthtrack.com, as well as information about our guests, their recommendations and our action points. And we always appreciate your feedback, so just go to the “contact us” link, or drop us a line at WealthTrack PO Box 20485, DHCC, New York, NY 10017.

In the meantime, thank you for watching and make the week ahead a profitable and productive one.


Sincerely,

Consuelo Mack


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