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BFG Environmental Impact
The objective of the BFG Environmental Impact portfolio is to invest into companies and organizations with the intention to generate a measurable environmental impact and long-term capital appreciation across industries focused on renewable energy, green technologies, and clean water.
What is Environmental Impact?
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Environmental Impact refers to an investment strategy that is meant to generate a financial return as well as a positive environmental impact. The strategy actively seeks to make a positive impact by investing in companies in the following categories: renewable energy, green technologies, and clean water.
Benefits of Environmental Impact Investing
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Align values with investing
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Stabilize a portfolio
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Heal the world & achieve market-rate returns
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Risks of Environmental Impact Investing
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Overall market risk in stock market
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High prices of new technologies
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Political pressures from competitor lobbyists
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Why We Invest in Environmentally Impactful Companies
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We believe we need to take on the challenges facing our planet and our global population. We support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Through impacting investing, we can promote positive change and profitable business practices by investing in companies we believe to further this concept. Although many environmentally impactful companies are not profitable, especially renewable energy ones, our strategy only invests in profitable and fundamentally sound companies.
The strategy's holdings are spread 1/3 evenly across each category of renewable energy, green technology, and clean water.
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Here are a few stocks held in this strategy...
Beyond Meat is a provider of plant-based "meats," such as burgers (64% of 2019 sales), sausage (23%), ground beef (13%), and chicken. Unlike other vegetarian products, Beyond Meat seeks to replicate the look, cook, and taste of meat, is targeted to omnivores, and is sold in the meat case.
Brookfield Renewable Partners LP is a renewable power generating company. It owns a portfolio of renewable power generating assets, which include conventional hydroelectric facilities and wind facilities located in North America, Latin America, and Europe.
Mitsubishi Electric Corp is a Japan-based company that manufactures and distributes a range of electronic equipment and components including energy systems, such as power generation and photovoltaic systems.
SolarEdge Technologies Inc together with its subsidiaries designs, develops, and sells direct current (DC) optimized inverter systems for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations.