Pricing
for commodity assets has come off as much as 5 % to 10 % and more significantly for land and hotels.
Gold and other precious metals account for about 60 percent of the new money, which has pushed
commodity assets under management above $ 235 billion.
The third edition of MarketPsych Indices boasts enhanced sentiment coverage of national fixed income securities and stock market indexes for the top 61 world economies and the Eurozone as well as expanded coverage of currencies, countries, and
agricultural commodities asset classes.
Chilton tells CNBC that for weeks his office has been researching what kind
of commodity assets the banks owned but it was extremely difficult, equating the search as a big black box.
As Willem Buiter, chief economist at Citigroup, has argued: «Water will become eventually the single most
important commodity asset class, dwarfing oil, copper, agricultural commodities and precious metals.»
At the same time, it should be noted that a strong case can be made that devoting a portion of your portfolio to currency and
commodity assets adds diversification and improves long - term returns.
According to a recent report by Barclays Capital,
commodity assets under management climbed above US$ 400 billion for the first time ever in March.
Commodity assets under management globally stood at $ 391 billion in January, up 50 percent from the same time the previous year, according to Citigroup.
Popular trades have included overweighting the U.S. dollar and underweighting emerging market and
commodity assets.
Based on the Bloomberg Commodity Index,
the commodity asset class is now down roughly 50 percent from its 2011 high.
An example is
the commodities asset class — hard to access in the past, but easier now with ETFs.
If I hold physical silver then I have
a commodity asset.
While Canada makes up approximately 3 % to 4 % of the world's total market capitalization, per the MSCI All Country World Index, it is well known that many Canadian investors express a «home bias» and are typically overweight financial and
commodity asset classes in their portfolios.
These two factors are well represented in our portfolio,» confirms Filippi, who confirms that around 60 per cent of the global portfolio is held in equity and
commodity assets.
For a visual representation, Figure 6 shows our expected return for
the commodities asset class along with the variability (unexpected return) around the expectation.