Some professional money managers are starting to treat commodities as a tradable asset class, which bothers some traditional investors as each commodity has different supply and demand fundamentals.

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Traditional thought has held that commodity prices all correlate with oil.

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Pension funds and other types of non-traditional users had come into the commodity markets in recent years, but lackluster returns are causing them to rethink those ideas, he said.

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In the latter half of 2008, the prices of every major commodity plummeted, but not because traditional supply and demand factors were unbalanced.

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If you look at funds that are investing in it, there were no pure plays until ours came out, so even traditional investors in the MLP asset class are overlooking commodity opportunities because of the perception of risk.

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