| Do commodities still have a place in the average investor’s portfolio? The 2007-09 recession caused everyone to re-evaluate their tolerance for risk, and nowhere was this felt more strongly than in the commodities arena, where anything from a coffee-eating pest to severe drought could cost an investor hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Several years of negative returns for most commodities haven’t endeared the asset class to investors: For the three years through January, the S&P GSCI Commodity Index posted a negative return of 40%. That came after a 52% decline between June 2008 and June 2011...............................................Full Article: Source
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