24.05.2016 - Fund Selector: Is the risk worth the reward?
My interest in commodities was recently piqued after receiving some emails from well-meaning individuals within the fund sales community, pointing out that their commodity funds were, by far, the best performing funds year to date and I should, of course, be assessing these portfolios. In my view, a healthy dose of skepticism is required for those undertaking fund research, so a little more digging (excuse the pun) was required. While the year-to-date performance of these products is undoubtedly stellar, it does not make up for the horrific performance produced by the asset class over any meaningful medium-term time period. Nonetheless, further assessment of the asset class was merited...............................................Full Article: Source
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