| Twelve months is a long time in investment. “2013 was a year when many investors may have questioned the role of certain asset classes, especially commodities,” says Nick Spencer, director of consulting at Russell Investments, after a year in which the Dow Jones-UBS commodity index lost 9.5 per cent but the Russell 3000 US equity index jumped 33 per cent.
So far this year the Dow Jones index has rebounded 9 per cent, and Hermes Fund Managers has declared the outlook for commodities to be its most propitious for a decade...............................................Full Article: Source
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