March 5, 2007—Global mutual fund Portfolio 21 recently announced its Top 10 financial performers for 2006 among companies implementing environmental business strategies. The top performers in the fund posted returns ranging from 41% to 131% in 2006. Portfolio 21 invests in 88 companies, selected from more than 2,000 companies based in 16 countries, including the US.
The fund identifies companies that save natural resources and provide products, services, and technologies that are needed to create a sustainable society. For example, Portfolio 21 companies are developing cleaner and more efficient energy solutions, products designed to be reused and rebuilt, and processes that eliminate the need for toxic inputs while producing little or no waste.
Portfolio 21’s Top 10 financial performers for the 12-month period ending December 30, 2006, include: Vestas Wind Systems (Danish), Fuel Systems Solutions, JM (Swedish), Interface, British Land, Acciona (Spanish), Ormat, Canon, Hewlett-Packard, and Novozymes (Danish).
For more information about Portfolio 21 or about the Top 10 companies, visit the company’s Web site.
