| Financial, rather than industry players have become a much more important factor in the price action of almost all commodities. This in turn leads to greater price volatility, and greater correlation with other financial assets, therefore reducing the diversifying characteristics of the asset class.
That is not to say that there are no opportunities. There are. And we seek to take advantage of specific opportunities as we see them. But a blanket commodity-index exposure we believe has less value for these reasons, as well as for the simple fact that the broad commodity indices are overwhelmingly dominated by energy components...............................................Full Article: Source
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