| Inflation risk is the risk that your standard of living including consumption needs such as buying a house will be affected due to increase in general price levels in the future. What should you do to moderate the effect of inflation on your lifestyle requirements? You should consider adding commodities to your investment portfolio. Why?
Inflation can be due to two primary reasons — increase in input costs for manufacturing goods and services and/or supply-side constraints. In either case, inflation essentially means you will experience an increase in the price levels of commodities such as crude, steel and food grains. If you invest in these commodities, you will benefit when their prices move up...............................................Full Article: Source
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