SNK Capital Trust believes that the way investors value companies is changing into a model that takes into account sales, profits and dividends but also long-term environmental and social costs. Phrases like “going green”, “eco-friendly” and “sustainable practices” are now much more than just cants to investors.

For many years companies did not have to in any way consider the cost of emitting greenhouse gases. But this is changing. Today, the cost of being green is legitimate costs that need to be considered by investors. Green is being seen critically as an investment factor by more and more institutions.

SNK Capital Trust has found that one thing that all companies will have to start doing - if they haven’t already - is figuring out what their total carbon emissions are across the board. Shareholders, governments and business partners will want to know, and those emissions may soon have either a price or a tax of some kind, a form of a penalty tax for carbon excess.

Not only new companies but new industries will emerge, and new markets and trade goods will be formed. Both society as a whole and the markets will determine the true long-term costs of environmental damage and sustainable economic systems. SNK Capital Trust will always be at the cutting edge looking for these market leaders.