AAA welcomes Predictions of Gold Rally

A new Morgan Stanley Report predicting that gold’s rally will continue into the third quarter of 2014 has been welcomed by Alternative Asset Analysis (AAA).

Boston, MA, February 02, 2013 - A new Morgan Stanley Report predicting that gold’s rally will continue into the third quarter of 2014 has been welcomed by Alternative Asset Analysis (AAA).

The report predicts that the US Federal Reserve will carry on buying up gold to strengthen the economy’s position well into next year, which could mean that it’s still very much worth investing in this alternative asset class. AAA endorses investment in alternative asset classes and ethical investment projects, such as the forestry investment and green energy investment.

“We are pleased to hear Morgan Stanley’s endorsement of gold as an asset class,” stated AAA’s analysis partner, Anthony Johnson. He continued: “We have seen a major increase in interest in alternatives since the economic collapse. It seems both institutional investors and individuals simply looking to diversify their investment portfolios against risk are keen on alternatives.”

“Investing in something like gold, as opposed to stocks and shares, offers a certain peace of mind as it is something tangible in exchange for their cash.”

As the US recovery increasingly took hold at the end of 2012, the price of gold fell. However, the Morgan Stanley analysts believe that the asset class is to remain popular well into next year.

Reports suggest that the US economy is to grow by 2 per cent in the coming year and 3 per cent in 2014. The number of houses being built is growing rapidly is response to the more positive economic outlook.

The house building increase is set to benefit some other alternative asset classes, like forestry, claims AAA. “Investing in timberland through firms that run plantations of sustainably grown timbers, like Greenwood Management, is a great bet at the moment,” added Mr Johnson. “Investing in timber is risk-averse and is a great way to offsetting the impact of inflation.”

Contact:
Anthony Johnson
Alternative Asset Analysis
71 Commercial St
Boston, MA 02109-1320
617-939-9596
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http://www.alternativeassetanalysis.com

AAA welcomes Report Predicting Impact investment Growth

AAA has welcomed a new report from JP Morgan and the Global Impact Investing Network, which claims that impact investing will grow by 12.5 per cent in 2013.

Boston, MA, January 12, 2013 - Alternative Asset Analysis (AAA) has welcomed a new report from JP Morgan and the Global Impact Investing Network, which claims that impact investing will grow by 12.5 per cent in 2013.

AAA said that news that impact investing will be increasingly popular, with total investments reaching as much as $9 billion this year, is great news for alternative investors everywhere. It added that social enterprises, small businesses, community projects and environmentally-responsible projects all over the globe are set to benefit from this extra interest in impact investing.

The report that outlined these predictions for the growth of impact investing was called the Perspectives and Progress report. It is based on the responses of 99 impact investors, responsible for some $10 million in capital. The experts said that although impact investment and ethical investing in general is gaining popularity, there is still a lack of high quality investment opportunities for those interested.

AAA supports alternative investments of all kinds, but focuses on endorsing responsible investments into asset classes, such as sustainable forestry and social enterprises. “We believe that responsible investing and generating a return are not mutually exclusive,” explained AAA’s analysis partner, Anthony Johnson.

He added, “Investing in green projects, through firms like Greenwood Management, is easier than ever and we believe more responsible and sustainable opportunities will become available in the year to come.”

The Rockefeller Foundation and the UN Global Compact stated back in June 2012 that larger corporations and institutional investors were beginning to take impact investing more seriously. “We are all seeing an increasing number of wealthy individuals and corporations turning to philanthropy as a way to demonstrate their ethical stance following the economic crisis,” added Mr Johnson, who has years of fund management experience and has also written a wealth of online blogs advocating alternative investments as a way to diversify investment portfolios.

Contact:
Anthony Johnson
Alternative Asset Analysis
71 Commercial St
Boston, MA 02109-1320
617-939-9596
info@alternativeassetanalysis.com
http://www.alternativeassetanalysis.com

NanoMarkets Adds New Report on Transparent Conductors in Touch Screens to Schedule

The report “Opportunities for Transparent Conductors in the Touch-Screen Display Industry—2011” will be released in late October and is available at pre-publication pricing through the end of the month.

Glen Allen, VA, October 20, 2011 - Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the addition of the report, “Opportunities for Transparent Conductors in the Touch-Screen Display Industry—2011” to the firm’s publication schedule. The report is scheduled to be released during the month of October 2011. The firm is offering the report at pre-publication rates. Additional details are available on the firm’s website at

http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/opportunities_for_transparent_conductors_in_the_touch_screen_display_indust

About the Report:

Opportunities for Transparent Conductors in the Touch-Screen Display Industry—2011

Touch-screen devices have gone from being a sleepy niche in the display industry to one of its fastest growing segments. Touch-screen displays – or rather the touch sensors that sit on top of them – are also large users of transparent conductive coatings. No surprise then that touch screens are seen as an immediate opportunity for the many new firms that are crowding into the transparent conductor market. And the attractiveness of the touch-screen market to the makers of novel transparent conductors is enhanced by the fact that the touch- sensor industry seems more than willing to rid themselves of a dependence on ITO with its high costs and low mechanical performance.

However, today one medium-sized factory producing transparent conductors is large enough to produce all the transparent conducting materials that the touch-sensor business needs for the foreseeable future. No one can blame the transparent conductor makers for chasing after customers who are willing to buy right now. But the question arises as to how much the touch-screen sector should really mean to them. Touch-screens may be an opportunity, but are they a big enough opportunity to build a substantial business on? Are touch screens just a way for firms manufacturing transparent conductors to bring in some short-term money in a difficult economic climate, or will they be a step to bigger things?

In this new report, NanoMarkets provides readers with a deeper understanding of the latest trends, requirements and potential of the touch-screen sector from the perspective of the transparent conductor industry. Although frequently lumped together, there are many types of touch-screen displays and this report examines the potential for each as a market for transparent conductors. The report also discusses what the challenges and opportunities will be for transparent conductor firms if – as expected by some – touch sensors start to be integrated not by third parties, but by the big flat panel display firms in Asia.

This report provides a granular analysis and forecast of all the new markets that are opening up for transparent conductors in the burgeoning touch-screen industry. By examining each of the main touch-screen technologies we determine and quantify the opportunities for transparent conductors in this space over the next eight-years, what kind of conductors will be needed and who is best suited to supply them. The analysis presented here is illustrated with critical discussions of the strategies that are currently being deployed by transparent conductor firms as they attack touch screen markets.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes opportunities in advanced materials and emerging electronics and energy markets. Please visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

PO Box 3840

Glen Allen, VA 23058

(804) 360-2967

rob@nanomarkets.net

http://www.nanomarkets.net

NanoMarkets Adds Report The Markets for Flexible Glass – 2011 to Publication Schedule

The report is scheduled to be released during the month of October 2011. The firm is offering the report at pre-publication rates through the end of October.

Glen Allen, VA, October 20, 2011 - Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the addition of the report, “The Markets for Flexible Glass – 2011” to the firm’s publication schedule. The report is scheduled to be released during the month of October 2011. The firm is offering the report at pre-publication rates through the end of October. Additional details are available on the firm’s website at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/the_markets_for_flexible_glass_2011

About the Report:

“Flexible electronics” is an idea that has been with us for a while, but is only now beginning to inch towards reality. The concept of displays that can be rolled up and put in a pocket, or solar and lighting panels that conform to contours of a building fabric are attractive ideas, both from aesthetic and practical standpoints. But they will require flexible substrates and while a large share of the flexible electronics and solar panel market will be supported on plastic substrates, NanoMarkets believes that a substantial share of flexible substrate market will be garnered by “flexible glass.” In addition, we believe that flexible glass has an important role to play in the flexible encapsulation business. Flexible glass brings to the market the familiarity, transparency, rigidity, thermal stability and scratch resistance that conventional plastics cannot offer.

With all this in mind, NanoMarkets is publishing this report analyzing the market for flexible glass over the next eight years. This report examines the flexible glass products currently on the market and where they are likely to generate new revenues. It also discusses where the next wave of flexible glass and similar products will be coming from and what sectors of the display and solar panel industry will be most likely to make use of flexible glass for both substrates and encapsulation. As with all NanoMarkets reports, this report includes an eight-year market forecast with breakouts by types of materials and specific applications.

Coverage:

Flexible Glass: Technology and Products

• Current Flexible Glass Products and Technologies

• AGC/Asahi Glass

• Corning

• Nipon Electric Glass

• Schott

• Tokyo Electron Glass

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Likely market entrants: From China with glass?

• “Near-flexible” glass

• “Pseudo-flexible” glass (ceramic/polymer mixes)

• Flexible glass versus other flexible substrates

• Plastics

• Metal foil

• Flexible glass and encapsulation

• Manufacturing flexible glass: trends and challenges

Markets for Flexible Glass

• The future use of flexible glass in R2R processes

• E-readers

• The role of flexible glass in “electronic paper”

• Cell phones and slate computers

• Flexible glass and rollable/foldable displays

• Flexible glass in touch panels

• Flexible glass and the future of building-integrated PV (BIPV)

• BIPV shingles

• Flexible glass and BIPV glass

• Other BIPV markets

• Flexible glass for OLED lighting

• Other markets and applications concepts for flexible glass

• Sensors

• Flexible batteries

• Chip packages

• Optical storage

• Wearable displays

• Is there flexible glass in the future of televisions?

Forecasts of Flexible Glass Markets

• Forecast by type of flexible glass

• Forecast by application/end-user market

• Forecast by type of application (substrate, encapsulation, etc.)

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes opportunities in advanced materials and emerging electronics and energy markets. Please visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

PO Box 3840

Glen Allen, VA 23058

(804) 360-2967

rob@nanomarkets.net

http://www.nanomarkets.net

New NanoMarkets Report, “A Capacity and Opportunity Analysis of OLED Lighting"

The new NanoMarkets report also includes an eight-year forecast of OLED lighting manufacturing capacity broken out by individual manufacturer and whether the facilities will use solution processing or more conventional fabrication.

Glen Allen, Virginia, September 29, 2011 - NanoMarkets, the leading provider of market research and analysis of the emerging OLED lighting space, has published the latest report titled, A Capacity and Opportunity Analysis of OLED Lighting Manufacturing” that provides detailed insight and analysis of the manufacturing strategies of major OLED lighting suppliers and an assessment of how these firms have been progressing with their manufacturing plans so far. The report also includes an eight-year forecast of OLED lighting manufacturing capacity broken out by individual manufacturer and whether the facilities will use solution processing or more conventional fabrication. An assessment of necessary investment levels for the manufacturing infrastructure is also part of this new report.

Details about this and other related reports are available at http://www.nanomarkets.net/oled_lighting

NanoMarkets concludes that, based on current plans, around seven million square meters of production capacity will be in place for OLED lighting by 2016. However, NanoMarkets also warns that in today’s economic conditions, many of the leading firms promising to bring OLED lighting to market may retreat from their announced plans significantly. With this in mind, this report also includes a projection of the OLED lighting capacity under a “worst case” scenario.

In addition to forecasts and an appraisal of the manufacturing plans of the leading OLED lighting makers, this report provides a granular discussion of the state-of-the-art in OLED lighting fabrication technology, examining what has been achieved at leading projects and pilot plants. And it profiles the activities of manufacturing equipment firms who have targeted the OLED lighting space for special consideration.

Among the firms covered in this report are: Aixtron, Applied Materials, AUO, Cannon Anelva, DuPont, GE, Kaneka, Kateeva, Konica Minolta, LG Chem, Lumiotec, Mitsubishi, Ledon, Moser Baer, NEC, Osram, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, PolyPhotonix, Rohm, Samsung, Sunic, Tokki, UDC, Ulvac, Veeco, and Visionox.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities created by developments in advanced materials. It provides regular and comprehensive industry analysis of the emerging OLED lighting industry, which it has been covering for almost six years. This coverage includes regularly updated forecasts of OLED lighting markets, reflecting real world market conditions

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

PO Box 3840

Glen Allen, VA 23058

804-270-4370

rob@nanomarkets.net

http://www.nanomarkets.net/