11.03.2015 - Should you invest in commodities or shares?
With a burgeoning amount of products available to retail investors that provide direct exposure to commodity prices, we set out to investigate whether you would have been better off investing in instruments (like ETFs and ETNs) that provide direct exposure to commodity prices, or whether you would have fared better owning the underlying equity of resource/commodity companies. But first a slight detour for the benefit of the uninitiated. In South Africa, investors have traditionally got exposure to commodities via shares of resource companies. This began to change with the development of the exchanged traded fund (ETF) industry in the early part of the last decade, which eventually led to the creation of the first commodity ETF...............................................Full Article: Source
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