| Sobering news for investors in specialty-commodity mutual funds: On average, they fall short on key measures, new research has found. “These categories of funds have not been able to consistently create positive net alphas for their investors over longer time periods,” the report states. Alpha is a measure of the value fund managers add to the investment process when adjusted for risk factors such as volatility.
The funds’ high expenses are often to blame, according to the report by Srinidhi Kanuri at the University of Southern Mississippi, Robert McLeod at the University of Alabama and Davinder Malhotra at Philadelphia University...............................................Full Article: Source
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