| The use of commodities funds holding everything from oil to gold has become increasingly popular as a broad investment tool, even as more portfolio managers have started to question how effective this will be over time.
Conventional wisdom maintains that holding large baskets of commodities can provide investors with a good hedge against inflation as well as low correlations to equities. But lately, funds investing across all types of such assets have been moving closer in-step with the S&P 500 index, notes Ned Davis Research strategist Neil Leeson...............................................Full Article: Source
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