"You could do a very efficient portfolio with four to eight E.T.F.'s," perhaps one of them in commodities, said Mr. Justice, who leads a staff of more than 15 analysts who study them.
Women are still mostly sex objects, and men mostly think of them in commodity terms.
You know, I mean, these are markets where, some of them are commodity types and does that make sense that those should, you know, be trading and [have] better transparency?
Starbucks attributed the move to a variety of factors, but one of them is surely commodity prices, which remain high.
This hefty weighting makes it tough for fund managers to neglect mining stocks, wary though some of them are of the commodities boom, lest their portfolios trail the overall market.
Well, I always thought that was nonsense, and I think a lot of them have concluded that commodities are speculation, they're not an asset class, and they have retreated even faster than they rushed in.
Of the eight ETFs that track commodities, five of them have launched this year, which is to be expected, given the recent exuberance over inflation hedges like gold and oil.
All of them stable and reliably profitable commodities in times of peace and prosperity.
He concluded that eight asset classes — none of them gold or any other commodity — were all that an investor needed.
But many of them are stuck in a "commodity trap", cautions Dieter Ernst of the East-West Centre, a think-tank in Honolulu.
