Commodities
Learn how commodity investing -- in metals, energy and agricultural crops -- can help enhance portfolio performance and diversify risk.
New ETFs Target Emerging Markets, Commodities
By Simon Maierhofer, Simon MaierhoferThree ETF offerings from WisdomTree, EGShares and USCF with portfolio exposure to commodities and emerging markets have just debuted.
July 08, 2010
New Commodity, Brazil Funds on TapRussell Investments launches a commodity strategies fund, while Global X rolls out an ETF tied to a Brazilian consumer-sector index.
May 18, 2010
Three Reasons to Consider Commodity FundsIs it time to increase clients' exposure to commodity funds? Advisors point to the need for diversification, the importance of hedging against inflation and the benefit of participating in the expected global recover as why commodities make sense.
February 01, 2010
Commodities Help Diversify PortfoliosBroad-based exposure to a basket of commodities can provide meaningful diversification to a portfolio even during turbulent markets.
January 01, 2010
Launching Commodities and MoreCRBA is benchmarked to the Thomson Reuters/Jefferies CRB In-The-Ground Global Agriculture Equity Index, which selects from a global universe of publicly traded companies engaged in...
December 01, 2009
Deutsche Bank Mixes Up Commodity ETFsThe Commodity Future Trading Commission has been waging war against commodity index funds and visible evidence they are winning that war has already begun...
November 01, 2009
Can Commodity ETFs Survive?The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has been waging war against commodity index funds, and visible evidence they are winning that war has...
October 01, 2009
Natural Gas ETF Hits a WallExchange-traded funds touted as a convenient way to obtain market exposure have now become an inconvenient headache. At the center of the chaos is the U.S....