Australia’s First Environmental Investment Magazine
by Victor Bivell
Editor
From Eco
Investor August 2005 Edition
Welcome to
the first edition of Eco Investor - Australia’s first magazine to focus
on investment in the environmental sector.
Evnironmental
investment has been growing strongly for many years and the Australian
market is now able to support a large number of companies that are engaged
in a wide variety of eco-friendly activities and are open to public investment.
This is of
particular interest to me because as a publisher my first publication
in this area was The Environmental Investment Directory of Australia 1992
in which I identified “93 investments that can help the environment and
are open to the general public”. These included recycling, forestry plantations,
natural gas, renewable energy, environmental engineering, environmental
technology and waste management.
EIDA was the
first publication to identify the range of public environmental investments
in Australia and may also have been the first comprehensive public application
to the local environment sector of what is now known as positive screening.
Such an exercise
would be much more demanding today and would show that the number of such
opportunities has grown many fold. It would also show that the variety
of eco-positive activities has spread to all sectors of the economy.
Most of these
opportunities are companies. Keeping in touch with them and how they are
travelling, both as financial investments and as contributors to the well
being of the environment, is the role of Eco Investor. Eco Investor is
published every second month starting this August. It is published in
full colour in PDF format and is delivered by email.
This edition
has been sent initially to 8,500 recipients. About half are in the finance
and investment sector and the other half have a connection to the environmental
sector, mostly as senior personnel in businesses supplying environmental
products and services or as researchers and entrepreneurs developing or
commercializing environmental ideas.
Bringing together
investment and environmental professionals in this way is key to Eco Investor’s
mission - “Helping Commercialize Australia’s Leading Environmental Ideas”.
Each edition
of Eco Investor will discuss a variety of interesting eco-friendly investment
opportunities from businesses at all stages of the development cycle -
large, listed, dividend paying companies through to unlisted, early stage,
pre-revenue companies just beginning their commercialization.
There will
be something of interest for all types of investors - institutional and
professional fund managers through to high net worth private investors,
business angels and retail investors.
It’s an exciting
universe, so let’s start...
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