Profitable ethanol

Piers Denne, head of sales and marketing at Future Capital Partners, discusses how Future Fuels aims to take advantage of developments in the ethanol market.

Profitability and green energy are not phrases often linked positively in the same sentence. For financial advisers and wealth managers looking to add some alpha to their clients’ portfolios investing in green energy might not be an obvious choice. That is because, in general, green energy is not understood as a money-making enterprise without at least some form of government support behind it. An exception to this rule is ethanol. The production of ethanol is profitable because it is driven by mandated legislation as well as by changing consumer and manufacturer habits. What is et...