How Eco Investor Helps Investors

Eco Investor Media is a specialist environmental investment publisher and conference organizer. We are Australia's leading source of information about environmentally positive companies and investments.

Our publications and conferences assist investors to add and manage an environmental theme to their share or investment portfolio. We have six products to assist investors. See panel at left for details.

Eco Investor has developed a rigorous positive screen to identify environmental investments. The companies that pass this screen have core activities that help solve environmental problems. These solutions include clean energy and energy efficiency, waste management and recycling, pollution control, aquaculture, environmental engineering, timber alternatives, carbon sinks, and other clean technologies.

Eco Investor Magazine, Eco Investor Update, and Eco Investor Database suit investors with a self managed super fund, a family trust, an investment company or who hold shares or an investment portfolio in their own name.

Eco Investor:

* Identifies companies and funds with a strong environmentally positive business activity and commitment. We have developed a three point methodology to identify environmentally positive investments:

1. Environmental activity - where the core business activity is a solution to an environmental problem;

2. Environmental focus - where the company is wholly or largely focused on this environmental activity; and

3. Environmental commitment - where the company has a commitment to being an environmentally positive business.

Currently about 100 companies on the ASX meet these criteria.

* Secondly, Eco Investor analyzes the business stage, risk/ return and investment performance of these securities so investors can identify if they are suitable for their investment strategy.

To help manage risk and return, investments are classified into the following categories:

- ASX 100 Companies
- ASX 200 Companies
- ASX 300 Companies
- Emerging Companies
- Micro Cap Companies

The securities are then further classifed using Eco Investor's “Portfolio Status Strategy”. This is a Four Stage Core-Satellite Strategy that identifies the status a security should have in a portfolio. Our four stages are:

Core Universe: Securities with a track record of profits and dividends.

Satellite Universe: 1. Securities that are profitable and likely to pay dividends in the short to medium term; or 2. securities that once were profitable and dividend paying but have temporary issues with one or both of these; or 3. securities that are profitable and pay dividends but have quality or outlook issues.

Pre-Profit Satellite Universe: Securities where the companies are earning revenue but are not yet profitable.

Pre-Revenue Satellite Universe: Securities where the companies are not yet earning revenue from the sale of core products.

The Portfolio Status Strategy allows all investors, from the conservative to the aggressive, to identify the securities that match their risk and return profile.

* Thirdly, Eco Investor magazine and Eco Investor Update provide ongoing news, analysis and comment.

Eco Investor magazine also provides information on unlisted companies, unlisted funds, fixed interest, direct property, and international investments.

Subscribers to Eco Investor Magazine receive the bi-monthly PDF (February, April, June, August, October and December). New subscribers also receive three complimentary back copies of the most recent editions.

Subscribers to Eco Investor Update receive the weekly HTML email. New subscribers also receive recent back copies.

Subscribers to Eco Investor Database receive:
- the bi-monthly Eco Investor magazine,
- the weekly Eco Investor Update,
- access to all back copies of the magazine and Update,
- an online search facility for all back copies,
- all the securities we follow on the ASX by business stage and industry sector,
- an environmentally positive analysis of the companies, and
- an index of articles on how to investment environmentally.

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