Lipper ranked it the top commodity fund last year with an 8.5% return, after 1.9% in fees.
But beyond that, not Pimco, not Invesco, and not Templeton commodity fund managers, and surely not oil, have been able to outperform the real money makers in 2011.
Brian Hunter, the gas trader, tried to raise money for another commodity fund, Solengo Capital, until he was sued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and named in an administrative action by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The Powershares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund ( DBC) is a widely followed and liquid ETF that tracks the changes in the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index.
Is it time to load up on shares of this commodity-focused mutual fund company or to sell it short?
In the late 1980s many African governments began dismantling state-owned commodity boards under an International Monetary Fund restructuring plan that demanded deregulation.
So our commodity portfolio is a lot less volatile than other commodity portfolios, in the Alternative Strategies Fund.
On April 17th the organisation sued the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over its mutual-fund rules.
Goldman, then, began trading in commodities, set up a fund and an index (Goldman Sachs Commodity Index) consisting of cattle, coffee, corn, wheat, cocoa, etc.
The fund is heavily weighted towards the Russian energy and mining industry, which has propelled the fund upward on the back of dramatically higher commodity costs.
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They can, for example, tax the foreign earnings of commodity producers, ploughing the proceeds into a sovereign-wealth fund that invests in foreign assets.
Though global commodity prices have risen 12% since last June, the Fund expects rising world supplies to bring down global energy prices by 3% in 2013.
If you agree, put 10% of your money in a hard-assets stock fund (see table below) or in some commodity positions you place yourself at a broker.
Haugerud decided to turn her fund, already heavily invested in commodities, into a commodity play.
Stabilisation funds, such as Chile's Economic and Social Stabilisation Fund, smooth out the economic cycle by accumulating revenues from commodity exports when prices are high, and disbursing them when prices drop.
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