Investment professionals across Europe are planning to increase their average allocation to commodities in 2013, particularly into industrial metals such as copper, a survey run on 350 professionals by ETF Securities has found.
Across Europe, the results show that over 40% of investors plan to allocate between 8-10% of their portfolios to commodities in the year ahead. In addition, just under a third of those surveyed in the UK and Switzerland were most concerned about the European Sovereign debt crisis, whereas the US fiscal and budget ceiling issues were deemed a greater concern by Italian and German investors………………………………………..Full Article: Source