United States Carbon Trading Markets

I just wanted to inform everyone that I launched a new website that I have been working on for a while and that I am very excited about - USCarbonReport.com The site will be dedicated to following the evolving US carbon markets and providing information for anyone interested.
The next few years should be very interesting […]

Carbon hedge fund performance

For a number of reasons, hedge fund performance can be hard to come, and any type of hedge fund index is probably a far from perfect way of tracking the performance of hedge funds in general.  So I was surprised to see this article talking about the performance of a new carbon hedge fund called […]

CCFE launches US Carbon futures for potential US carbon Cap and Trade scheme

Wow.  This sure is thinking outside the box.  Or is it thinking outside the box that hasnt been built yet.
Press release from Chicago Climate Futures Exchange:
CFE’s Carbon Financial Instrument®- U.S. Allowance futures (CFI®-US) contract offers the first tool for directly hedging exposure to possible future U.S. carbon allowance prices, as well as whether and when […]

Goldman Sachs continues investing in carbon market

I count three recent investments the investment bank Goldman Sachs has made in the carbon industry over the past year:
December 2007 - invested in APX, a California company that registers carbon offsets.
October 2008 - bought a part of BlueSource, a company focused on the U.S. offsets market.  Goldman has said that they plan to market […]

Carbon ETN follow-up

This morning after posting the Seeking Alpha carbon ETN entry, I came across this article about ETNs in the Wall Street Journal. For those unfamiliar with ETN’s, or just assume ETN’s are like ETF’s, it is definately worth reading.
When you buy an ETF, you are essentially buying a basket of underlying assets. ETNs […]

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