Solvation

Financial and Social Capital - an Example

I just posted a financial analysis I did in 2006. The challenge was to canvas the entire space of novel materials (except bio), with particular interest in nanotechnology; look for a viable publicly traded alternative energy company; and then buy and hold that for three years with no risk management (e.g. options).

The name of the company has been obscured, but here's the graph. It was $9 when I recommended it, and roughly $31 now. (Between $25-30 in June '09, so the ROI would be about 3x.)

Of course I was looking not only at traditional financial performance but also applied social capital ideas to the analysis.

Transcript of Shiller on Charlie Rose

I am moderating a week-long forum on Skoll's SocialEdge on "What is Wealth." In that, I refer to the video of the interview Charlie Rose did of Robert Shiller. It was brought to my attention that as broadband is limited in areas where many Skoll participants are, that this would be useless to them.

So I sought to provide a link to the transcript, but unfortunately, Charlie Rose's site has a layout problem, and it's unreadable, at least to me.  So I copied-and-pasted it here and cleaned up the tags until it laid out like it should.