Commodities
Learn how commodity investing -- in metals, energy and agricultural crops -- can help enhance portfolio performance and diversify risk.
Three Reasons to Consider Commodity Funds
By Ed McCarthy, CFP, RICPIs 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.
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....
November 19, 2008
Searching for a Custodian, and Questioning DiversificationI am in the final stages of selecting a new custodian and I'm rethinking my long-time belief in diversification. On the custodian front, I have spoken...
September 18, 2008
Commodities safe haven for investorsCommodity stocks are enjoying a resurgence in popularity as Wall Street runs red with blood. Financial Times reports gold increased 11.4 percent to $866.10 per...
September 01, 2008
Experts Debate: Boom or Doom?U.S. Global Investors, the San Antonio-based fund shop that boasts a chart-topping performance with its gold/precious-metals fund and its global-resources fund (among others), recently hosted...