A new virtual alternative energy fund is born

Everyone always aims to find the hypes in the global stock markets. In the eighties, Japan was hot. In the nineties, you had to have tech stocks. Then came metals & mining and several others have passed that may have not been as significant, but were certainly worth the money. When reading financial websites, there's one sector that keeps coming back: alternative energy. It's no secret to anyone on this planet that something needs to happen about the way we pollute the environment and our atmosphere by consuming more and more energy per capita. Emissions are a big issue, ethanol is so hot that there are actually fears of grain, corn, soy & sugar becoming too expensive for third world countries. Friends and family members might already start selling you fuel savings pills and even your little village grocer starts selling LED bulbs. Clean & green is hot and it wil remain hot for years to come, if the stock market experts are right. Well, I'm gonna take that challenge and give you five alternative energy stocks. Let's see if they can outperform my stock pick portfolio or even my mining portfolio. Here's the first five (I might add more in a while) : Evergreen Solar (ESLR - US$9.46), Beacon Power (BCON - US$0.90), Pacific Ethanol (PEIX - US$15.40), Distributed Energy Systems (DESC - US$2.89) and SolarWorld (SWV.DE - EUR 57.57). Now let's see how sunny the future is for these green stocks. Investing in these companies almost makes you feel as if you're doing something good for Mother Earth!

An early March update...

Another month closed and it is therefore time for another update on my favourite stocks. Even though my stock picks are only up 3.5%, so far they do outperform pretty much every index around the world!

Date	Fund	Purchase	Current	ROI%	Target
18Dec2006	Aareal Bank	35.50	35.40	-0.3%	44.40
13Dec2006	ABN Amro	24.10	28.00	+16.2%	28.00
16Feb2007	Ahold	7.97	7.56	-5.1%	10.00
16Nov2006	Banco Pastor	14.15	16.85	+19.1%	18.00
27Nov2006	Capitalia	7.00	6.62	-5.4%	8.50
19Feb2007	Companhia Vale	$35.90	$34.10	-5.6%	$55.00
12Jan2007	Crystallex	$3.12	$3.04	-2.6%	$6.00
24Jan2007	DRDGold	$0.83	$0.80	-6.0%	$1.10
21Dec2006	Fiat Group	14.50	17.79	+22.7%	19.33
12Jan2007	Gold Reserve	$3.94	$4.46	+13.5%	$12.00
10Dec2006	Hagemeyer	3.64	3.58	-1.6%	5.00
16Dec2006	Iberia	2.81	3.30	+17.4%	3.30
28Nov2006	Ormonde Mining	0.24	0.19	-20.8%	0.40
7Dec2006	Rhodia	2.60	2.65	+1.9%	3.20
30Nov2006	SolarWorld	46.10	54.58	+18.4%	69.12
2Dec2006	Vallourec	204.00	187.33	-8.2%	250.00
				+3.5%

All stocks in euro unless mentioned otherwise. Stocks in bold have been sold as target price has been reached.

Early February update on stock tips

Date	Fund	Purchase	Current	ROI%	Target
18Dec2006	Aareal Bank	35.50	36.62	+3.2%	44.40
13Dec2006	ABN Amro	24.10	24.66	+2.3%	28.00
16Nov2006	Banco Pastor	14.15	16.11	+13.9%	18.00
27Nov2006	Capitalia	7.00	6.90	-1.4%	8.50
12Jan2007	Crystallex	$3.12	$2.92	-6.4%	$6.00
24Jan2007	DRDGold	$0.83	$0.85	+2.4%	$1.10
21Dec2006	Fiat Group	14.50	17.00	+17.2%	19.33
12Jan2007	Gold Reserve	$3.94	$4.58	+16.2%	$12.00
10Dec2006	Hagemeyer	3.64	3.71	+1.9%	5.00
16Dec2006	Iberia	2.81	3.12	+11.0%	3.30
28Nov2006	Ormonde Mining	0.24	0.19	-20.8%	0.40
7Dec2006	Rhodia	2.60	2.88	+10.8%	3.20
30Nov2006	SolarWorld	46.10	61.75	+33.9%	69.12
2Dec2006	Vallourec	204.00	201.80	-1.1%	250.00
				+5.9%

All stocks in euro unless mentioned otherwise.