| Times may be tough for energy commodities, but Encompass Fund Managers Malcolm Gissen and Marshall Berol are hard-core survivors. In this interview with The Energy Report, the dynamic duo share their tactics for winning in 2013 after decades of experience investing in uranium, oil and gas, coal, hydroelectric and geothermal energy.
There are more than 1,200 ETFs on the market. They can be worthwhile, but Wall Street is slicing and dicing sectors and industries into really thin tranches to create somewhat non-transparent indexes. ETFs are not per se better than mutual funds or individual stocks. Investors must look under the hood of any ETF to see if it is investing in stocks, futures contracts or bullion. With that said, we do look at ETFs and have commodity ETFs in our separately managed accounts..........................................Full Article: Source
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