02.12.2011 - Diversify your risk with commodities
Commodities have often featured in periodic booms and busts, but they have also offered attractive returns over sustained periods and provided a good way for investors to diversify risk. That is the conclusion of a research paper by US investment firm Vanguard, which has looked at the returns on 30 commodities since 1959, including popular areas such as gold and crude oil as well as more esoteric products such as feeder cattle and rough rice. Vanguard has no axe to grind: it does not offer a commodity product among its range of low-cost tracker funds...............................................Full Article: Source
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