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- Commodity Futures: Essential Diversifier Or Gamble On Future Oil Prices?
- The historical diversifying effect of commodity futures is often given to justify their inclusion in portfolios. While commodity futures have increased the risk-adjusted return of a stock and bond portfolio since 1970, much of this result comes from the early 1970s, a period characterized by high inflation and the soaring...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Facts and Fantasies About Commodity Futures
- This paper produces some stylized facts about commodity futures and addresses some commonly raised questions: Can an investment in commodity futures earn a positive return when spot commodity prices are falling? How do spot and futures returns compare? What are the returns to investing in commodity futures, and how do...
- White papers 2004-06-14
- The Tactical and Strategic Value of Commodity Futures
- Historically, commodity futures have had excess returns similar to those of equities. But what should we expect in the future? In addition, the evidence suggests that commodity futures are an inconsistent, if not tenuous, hedge against unexpected inflation. Further, the historically high average returns to a commodity futures portfolio are...
- White papers 2005-03-01
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- Commodity futures' hot streak could stall.(News)
- Byline: Joel Chernoff Institutional investors plunging into commodity futures may not get the returns they're expecting. About two-thirds of nearly $70 billion in passively managed commodity futures investments tracked the Goldman Sachs Commodity index as of Sept. 30, according to Goldman...
- Research articles 2005-12-26
- NZ Super buys into commodity future contracts.
- Byline: Bill McConnell Nov 01, 2005 (Investor Weekly - ABIX via COMTEX) -- New Zealand Superannuation Fund has signed commodity swap deals with two investment banks. The commodity futures contracts...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- CFTC critiqued. (Congressional hearing to decide the fate of the Commodity Futures Trading Commision)
- The Congress is evaluating a House bill proposal that will merge the Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC with the SEC. This bill is due to the management difficulties and poor performance of the CTFC. The CTFC does not have a strategic enforcement program or an organized management. The approval of...
- Research articles 1995-12-01
- Yahoo's Fate and the Future of News
- Yahoo's Fate and the Future of NewsNews As Commodity FutureDavid Weir is, as always, right on point. Pork bellies are more compelling than the News these days, to the public and investors alike. And just today The New York Times dismissesd 100 from the newsroom.The larger picture seems to...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- Commodity indexes: the next generation.
- Two commodity indexes Commodity Research Bureau CRB and Goldman Sachs Commodity Index GSCI are in for a healthy competition at the stock exchanges. Although CRB did not cause any major sensation after it entered the New York Future Exchange in Jun 198Two commodity indexes Commodity Research Bureau CRB and Goldman...
- Research articles 1992-10-01
- Survey probes the managed future. (Chicago Board of Trade survey on managed money) (TrendLines)
- Overregulated and misunderstood is how more than half of 200 respondents -- largely commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators -- of a Chicago Board of Trade CBOT survey on managed money described the industry. Just 19% considered the inOverregulated and misunderstood is how more than half...
- Research articles 1993-09-01
- SEC and CFTC Agree on Futures.
- Trading in security futures products is expected to begin this summer, according to officials of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Future Trading Commission. Trading in security futures products is expected to begin this summer, according to officials of the Securities and...
- Research articles 2001-06-01
- U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves a Weapon Against Price Spikes and Speculators
- Here's an interesting bent on the role of energy speculators and last summer's skyrocketing oil prices: using government-controlled strategic petroleum reserves to limit the power of speculators. According to a paper released Thursday by Rice University's James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy, (reported by Dow Jones via Rigzone and...
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- A commodity fund opens door to new investment options; Advisers see a future for ETFs beyond futures.(News)
- Byline: David Hoffman NEW YORK - A new exchange-traded commodities pool has opened the floodgates to a new universe of ETF products, according to industry experts. The DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund, launched Feb. 3 and...
- Research articles 2006-02-13
- Is the future of bonds carved in gold? (Treasury bonds; correlation between bond market, Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau index and gold prices)
- Treasury bond prices can be predicted by examining the correlation between bond prices, the Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau CRB index and gold prices. Studies confirm an inverse correlation between bond prices and the CRB, which is touted as an Treasury bond prices can be predicted by examining the correlation between...
- Research articles 1995-02-01
- Canadian commodity and excise tax issues - Tax Executives Institute Canadian Commodity Tax Committee
- In connection with Tax Executives Institute's December 6, 1995, liaison meeting with the Canadian Department of Finance on commodity and excise tax issues, Tax Executives Institute sent the following letter to Brian Wurts, the Department's Chief, General Operations / GST The Institute's follow-up submission, along with the minutes of the...
- Research articles 1996-01-01
- Seeing Into Gary Hamel's 'Future'
- It’s almost pompous to title a book “The Future Of†anything. The future usually flummoxes forecasters of all stripes, though they may get pieces of things right. In fact, an executive I was interviewing once told me he saved time by not reading anything that aimed to predict...
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- Introduction To Futures And Commodity Trading
- The futures markets are described as continuous auction markets and exchanges providing the latest information about supply and demand with respect to individual commodities, financial instruments, and currencies. Futures exchanges are where buyers and sellers of an expanding list of commodities, financial instruments, and currencies, come together to trade. Trading...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Commodity Swaps
- The final class for which one will consider swapping cash flows is commodities. Commodities are physical assets such as precious metals, base metals, energy stores such as natural gas or crude oil and food (including wheat, pork bellies, cattle, etc.). There are two kinds of agents participating in the commodity...
- White papers
- Information Technology: Value Creator or Commodity?
- Only a few years ago, companies put a high priority on coming up with innovations in information technology. A new solution, software program or piece of hardware could almost guarantee these companies a competitive advantage, at least in the foreseeable future. Yet as companies started to realize that information technology...
- White papers
- Single stock futures creep closer. (Inch by Inch).(Securities and Exchange Commission plans rules for security future products)(Brief Article)
- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC and SEC knocked a few more issues off their to-do list in May as they continued the rule-making process for security futures products, which include single stock futures and narrow-based stock indexes. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC and...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- Cereplast CEO Delivers Speech at Commodity Classic 2006, the National Corn Growers Association Annual Conference; Shares Podium with Ford Motor Company on a Panel Discussion on ``Biofuels and Bioproducts of the Future''
- HAWTHORNE, Calif. -- CereplastTM, Inc. (OTCBB:CERP), producer of proprietary bio-based resins which are used as substitutes for petroleum-based plastics, reports today that the company's CEO, Frederic Scheer, MBA, Ph.D., delivered a speech at this year's Commodity Classic, entitled, "Displacing Petroleum-Based Plastics with Bioproducts."
- Research articles 2006-03-06
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