Guggenheim Solar (ETF)

• A Foolish Take on Solar

  By Dana Blankenhorn - March 15, 2013 | Tickers: FSLR, TAN, LDK, KWT, SCTY, STP, YGE

  This should be a good time to hold some solar, but most stocks in the sector are down, and the major ETFs covering the space, TAN (NYSEMKT: TAN) and KWT (NYSEMKT: KWT), are both down 35% year-over-year.

  What's wrong with solar stocks? Nothing, per se. The sector continues to grow, costs continue dropping across the board, and more locations are passing through grid parity or convergence, the point at more »

• Once in a Lifetime Buy in Clean Energy (Part I)

  By Paul Franke - February 23, 2013 | Tickers: FSLR, TAN, KWT, WFR, SPWR

  The biggest “beneficiary” of continued rises in coal, oil and gas pricing will be, in our opinion, clean energy – mainly solar and wind resources.  Not only will the real world “cost” of clean energy production cross BELOW the expense of burning brick, liquid and gas fossil fuel, but their renewable and available everywhere aspects will generate a sea change in demand for clean energy.

• Beware of Over-Diversification in Green ETFs

  By Joshua Bondy - February 23, 2013 | Tickers: TAN, GEX, NLR, PBW

  Risk and return. The goal is to find great returns with as little risk as possible. Green ETFs sound like a simple and easy way to achieve such goals, but looks can be deceiving. Many ETFs mix low-quality firms along with quality firms. It is important to look at an ETF's holdings to understand the true amount of risk it holds. 

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• One Stock Shorts are Beginning to Fear

  By Edgar Ambart - September 8, 2012 | Tickers: FSLR, TAN, JKS, LDK, YGE

  Wise investors know exactly when to turn bearish, right around the time when everyone else is overwhelmingly bullish.  Per John Templeton, bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria.  The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell. 

  As the S&P500 fired off after Mr. Obama's more »

• Three Distinctive Global Sector ETFs

  By Jeff Stouffer - September 5, 2012 | Tickers: CUT, FSLR, TAN, SEA, WY

  The demand for cross border or international trade investments will always be met by new programs that take advantage of this long-term human desire. From the days of the Mississippi Land Scheme of the early eighteenth century to present, the search for profitable opportunities remains constant. 

  Global sector exchange-traded funds provide a passive approach to meet this demand and the creation and implementation of such specialty indexes and led to more »

• Investing to Benefit from the Energy Revolution

  By Andrés Cardenal - March 29, 2012 | Tickers: FAN, GE, TAN, PZD

  The world needs an energy revolution, not only because fossil fuels are expensive and dirty, but also because in many undeveloped countries access to those energy sources are not available to big segments of the population. Dependence on oil from politically unstable countries is not a comfortable situation for the US or European nations, and energy has been an important factor behind many armed conflicts and political upheavals in the more »

• Rethinking Solar's Still Bright Future

  By Kirk Spano - March 7, 2012 | Tickers: FSLR, GE, TAN, LDK, WFR

  If you are considering an investment in solar, EPC is an acronym you need to know.

• GALP Energized by 2011's Biggest Losers

  By Kirk Spano - January 2, 2012 | Tickers: URA, TAN, KOL, NLR, KWT, PBW

  Sometimes investments are low priced because they ought to be low priced, rarely however does an entire sector get battered and stay on the mat too long.  Usually there is at least some reversion to the mean.  In 2011 several energy related industries got outright slaughtered with losses of 30% or more.  Some are already poised for comebacks and some will take time but have huge upsides.  Here’s a look at a few that qualify as Growth At Low Price investments today.