$6 - $8 Trillion in Investment Losses for 2008
On NPR radio (I don't recall the exact source) and this CNBC article on How the Financial Crisis Impacts Your Retirement estimated investment losses ... , commodities, hedge funds, value investing, mutual funds, sector funds, real estate, etc ... all the losses go. Looking back, here's what worked in 2008: Investing in CDs, bonds, and shorting stocks [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 13:08:03
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Now that's really funny...
It it at times like this that you realize how difficult it would have been to just follow the simple investment advice of buying commodities in the ... in commodities, yet with news of a high profile commodity hedge fund shutting down and twitchy traders ... about the recent slide in commodity prices is that much of the big move down is being attributed [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 15:18:00
Investing with style
Investing with style December 23rd, 2008 Variety in commodities funds protects your investments These days, there is no single safe investment ... insurance and cohesion. Commodities funds should be invested over a wide range of markets and assets, protected against any single big loss. That’s the beauty of managed futures, an alternative [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 16:58:55
Lieberman Proposes Barring Institutional Investors From Commodities
Whether it comes to fruition is to be determined, but taken at face value, ... and index funds from investing in commodities is a Nixon-goes-to-China moment, a significant indicator ... that this will simply drive investing in commodities overseas. Perhaps, but funds regulated under [more...]
Date: 2008-06-12 05:14:27
President Obama to Inherit Bush Recession and Record Deficits
By: John_Mauldin Nov 01, 2008 This week we survey the economic landscape that the new president will inherit ... liquid. And if you are an advisor or broker and would like to see the managers on his platform ... investments, including hedge funds and actively managed commodity funds, has done this year, I suggest [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 18:37:07
Fool's Mission By OPEC
Oil has fallen below $70 in the wake of a slowing global economy and massive deleveraging by hedge funds ... and commodity funds that started rolling over ever increasing numbers of oil futures. This put upward [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 19:53:00
Diversifying Portfolio with Commodities Futures Fund
I first heard about commodities futures in the last bear market. In 2002, commodities futures returned something like +25-30% while the S&P lost 22%. People were saying back then commodities futures were a great investment because they had “equity-like” [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 15:09:09
Gold, Not so Golden in 2008
Gold It’s been a terrible year for most major asset classes — stocks, real estate, hedge funds, and commodities ... other commodity.” The yellow metal settled at a record $1003.20 on March 18 and has lost nearly 16 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 16:07:07
Traders Driving Oil Prices Up
"Just about everyone is ducking for cover. Big Oil is pointing fingers at hedge fund managers, who blame commodity index funds, who in turn cite surging demand in China, production losses in Nigeria [more...]
Date: 2008-06-19 20:03:56
Brian Hunter Rides Volatility In Commodities To Profits
brianhuntersuedcftc.jpg For much of the credit crisis, commodities traders had an easy time of it by going long energy ... , is advising the Peak Ridge Commodity Volatility Fund. According to Bloomberg the fund clocked in a 24 [more...]
Date: 2008-08-12 14:13:57
A dream of Russian dandelions
Out for a bike ride in Northern California, whipping down some rural road where the cows far outnumber the cars and the only energy actively being ... production. Others point an accusatory finger at hedge fund commodity speculation ... , discussing some plans to develop an alternate source of natural rubber in the U.S., quotes Akron-based Delta [more...]
Date: 2008-07-03 18:25:05
Credit Crunch
In the earlier part of the year, as my company has some extra funds sitting around and not doing anything, I decided to put them in fixed deposit ... to a new commodity investment fund that they were introducing - oil! As the investment period required ... deposit instead. She highlighted to me the flexibility and advantages of doing so. My fund would [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 19:42:00
Managed Futures Funds Gain in Popularity and Performance
Excellent article from MarketWatch. Of course to us it’s just preaching to the choir ... of negative performance. Managed Futures funds (also referred to as Commodity Trading Advisors or CTAs ... , commodity futures and currency markets. Managers who have done well to- date this quarter have generally [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 23:09:12
Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan
Dear CIGAs, Due to time constraints associated with trading I have to keep things short today – gold rebounded off of support near yesterday’s lows ... the line just below $866 or so. Some of this selling is no doubt associated with commodity index fund ... up all the gains that it managed to ridiculously acquire as the ninny index funds went diving [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 19:18:29
Gold, Not so Golden in 2008
It’s been a terrible year for most major asset classes — stocks, real estate, hedge funds, and commodities ... % since. The gains were fueled by much the same activity that boosted grain commodities such as wheat ... has been in the past,” says Darin Newsom, DTN senior commodities analyst. “We were seeing a get-me-out effect [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 16:12:01
Links 12/2/08
Swimming swans push up the cost of the 12 Days of Christmas Guardian. No deflation here ... with quantitative easing Marshall Auerbach, Credit Writedowns Commodity Pay Falls Faster Than Oil as Goldman, Funds Retrench Bloomberg. So much for the idea that commodity traders needed good bonuses to keep [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 07:10:43
Scott Irwin takes down Michael Masters
Econbrowser is pleased to host another contribution from Scott Irwin, who holds the Laurence J ... the charge that speculative buying by index funds in commodity futures and over-the- counter (OTC ... misunderstanding of how commodity futures and related derivatives markets actually work. It is important [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 20:55:26
Tuesday morning links
TOP STORIES Paulson Plan May Push National Debt to Post-World War II Levels - Bloomberg Echoes of Iraq in Bush handling of mortgage crisis - ... The Great Triumvirate who run the global economy - Commodity Online A Fund to Rival Those of Other ... falls toward $108 as traders mull bailout plan - AP Gold slips on profit taking as dollar recovers [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 12:58:00
Tips for Improving your Investing
Many investors -- especially beginning investors -- want tips for improving their investing. There are a lot of tools out there ( ... strategies. However, Stock Trading To Go has some very basic and active things you can do in order ... as funds, bonds, currencies, options, commodities, futures and other opportunities might [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 19:38:01
Closing Comments September 02 2008
Prices of Treasury coupon securities have surged today as a variety of fundamental and technical factors have combined to drive prices higher ... . There was an unsubstantiated rumor of a SWF fund selling commodities and buying Treasury debt. In that regard, the futures contract performed better than cash today and that would lend some credence [more...]
Date: 2008-09-02 20:19:33
Shocker: Federal Regulators Conclude That Oil Speculators Not Responsible For High Gas Prices
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has released financial data indicating that commodities traders engaged in oil speculation have had little ... driving the future price of oil down. Commodity index funds also have a much smaller share ... of transactions worth billions of dollars between January and June of this year. Commodity futures [more...]
Date: 2008-09-15 14:50:11
Top 5 Secrets Why Cash is Not Safe
In this turbulent economy many people are fleeing the stock market (or selling low) and sticking their money in cash. While I do recommend cash ( ... of investing, we usually think about the risk that a stock, mutual fund, bond, or commodity ... 3 years), investing in cash is the wrong choice for long term (10+ years) goals, such as retirement [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 21:34:25
Four at Four: Unstable Foundations
It’s almost as if the oil contract itself saw the equity rallies of Thursday and Friday as a personal affront, ... , senior vice president at Alaron Trading. “The big question is, ‘Is it just one commodity fund ... massive spikes — oil hit $130 a barrel in trading today [more...]
Date: 2008-09-22 11:36:00
The Energy-Stock Chasm
In the wake of the shuttering of Ospraie Management’s largest fund Tuesday, ... positions on commodities futures and long ones on resource equities — a bet that didn’t work out, because those stocks continued to decline. “The options pricing implies that these stocks are not done [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 19:01:57
Oil Prices Mixed As Market Focuses On Soft Demand
NEW YORK: Oil prices were mixed on Tuesday as market concerns about soft demand eclipsed supply concerns amid rising geopolitical tensions in the ... due to deepening geopolitical frictions, analysts said. The New York futures contract hit an intra ... of an economic recovery in 2009, hedge funds back on commodities and finally cold temperatures,” said [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 03:30:26
Inc Magazine Individual Investors Email List
42,430 Total Investors The Inc. Magazine Individual Investors Email list consists of entrepreneurs who play an active role in their personal ... for their financial futures. These savvy investors spread their investments across a wide spectrum in order to diversify their portfolios. Stocks, bonds, CDs, mutual funds, real estate, commodities [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 08:36:15
Investors Smitten With CTAs, Sour On Hedge Funds
Commodity trading advisors have outperformed their hedge fund counterparts through the financial crisis and investors have taken notice. read more [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 00:07:00
Plethora of Commodities ETFs for Retail Investors (pfblogs.org)
Tim Iacono submits: Below is the updated table of commodity mutual funds, ETFs and ETNs from the back of the paper titled, Buy the Stocks Or, ... Conference in Las Vegas.A whopping 76 commodity offerings are now available to retail investors ... gold). Traders just love those things.Complete Story » ... [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 12:36:26
Food Crisis to Resume Next Year?
We haven't spent much time talking about our "World of Shortages" themes since the commodity indexes have crashed, with hedge fund deleveraging being one of the main culprits. Certainly demand destruction is part of the theme as well. However, the implications as we look out past the short term remain dire [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 11:30:00
Money Magazine recommends commodities (kind of)
It's only six percent and it's not really commodities, but commodity stocks instead, however, ... 9%, the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index, which tracks oil, metals and food futures, averaged a 13% annual return. In just the past five years, commodity-driven mutual funds have gained an annual average [more...]
Date: 2008-06-27 13:18:00
Back to the Future - Commodities Rule Again
I feel like I've fallen asleep and someone transported me back to about 9 months... the whole gang is back! ... positions are being taken back to the future by HAL. The charts above are why I say it makes zero sense for you to spend even 1 minute of research in commodity stocks. In the new hedge fund era of the past [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 20:14:41
To Stimulate or Not To Stimulate, That is the Question
by Mary Putting together an economic stimulus package that is big enough and fast enough to jolt the economic out of its downward spiral is one ... buyouts, hedge funds, commercial and industrial loans, corporate bonds, commodities, and credit-default swaps—a dangerous unregulated market wherein up to $60 trillion of nominal protection was sold [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 03:07:42
personal finance free ware
personal finance free ware 2009-01-05 16:01 at 2009-01-05 16:01 · Filed under stock market investing Medical malpractice, while rough to accept, ... by the Palmerston Government to help excavation group save for their futures and as a means of raising commodity day future investing trading funds for populace spending. Im conversation about a live [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 21:02:31
When diversification fails (Reuters)
When diversification fails (Reuters) By admin | LONDON (Reuters) ... , commodities, hedge funds and managed futures — lost 29.1 percent since October 2007. This compares ... their traditional equity-bond portfolio, spread risks and seek extra "alpha" returns by buying commodities [more...]
Date: 2008-12-07 17:18:46
Islamic hedge funds now a reality
Hedge funds with no leverage, options or futures might sound like a product stripped to the bare essentials of short and long equity strategies, but that has not deterred the $50 million seeding of the BlackRock Global Resources & Mining Fund by the Dubai Multi Commodities... read more [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 09:46:32
Real Investor Should Read Investing Blog
.fullpost{display:inline;}-We lived in a wild world, where everything you want to reach should be through struggling ... information about forex, stocks, hedge fund, futures and commodities. I never missed my day without [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 08:42:00
What Is Going on in Argentina
James Attwood and Drew Benson of Bloomberg: Bloomberg.com: Economy: Argentine Bonds, Stocks Sink as Takeover Fuels Default Concerns : Oct. 22 ( ... is undermining investor confidence that was already faltering as prices on the country's commodity ... for public trading, data compiled by pension funds show. The government's proposal to take control [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 16:07:45
Managed Futures Shine in 2008 Massacre
Managed futures funds or Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) ... % gain for the CSFB/Tremont Managed Futures Index. Only dedicated short-sellers have outpaced CTAs ... as margins collapse and assets nosedive. It’s a different story altogether for managed futures this year [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 15:14:05
Lean Hog Prices Poised to Climb in 2009
Bloomberg reports that "In the worst year for commodities in at least five decades, hogs rose 6.6 percent, the second-biggest gains on the Reuters/Jefferies CRB Commodity Index, behind cocoa."The article quotes fund manager Mark Greenwood: “We’re going to have 3 to 4 percent less pigs next [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 23:57:00
Brooklyn, NY - U.S. Commodity Futures Commission Bans Operator For Fraud; Ordered To Pay $1,350,000 in Restitution
Brooklyn, NY - The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today filed and settled charges of fraud, filing false documents, and misappropriation of customer funds against a registered commodity pool operator, Innovative Capital Management, LLC (Innovative [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 16:02:05
Managed Futures Shine in 2008 Massacre
Managed futures funds or Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) ... , trade over 100 highly liquid global futures contracts, including stock indexes, bond indexes ... compared to a 15.6% gain for the CSFB/Tremont Managed Futures Index. Only dedicated short-sellers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 19:38:44
Oil flat, weighs Saudi output after fall from high
Oil steadied on Tuesday after touching a record near $140 the previous day, ... $500 million in futures as the head of fund Global Commodities in Australia. Refiners in the United [more...]
Date: 2008-06-17 05:09:38
It’s Hard to Be a Hedge Fund
Jay Miller reports: Hedge funds had a rough July as bets on rising commodity prices and falling financial stocks failed to pan out, ... . The trade has been a favorite of traders for some time. High oil prices and troubles in the U.S. banking [more...]
Date: 2008-08-12 08:34:00
Oil Traders: Don't Fence Us In
Investment bank and hedge fund representatives tell the Commodity Futures Trading Commission the oil market doesn't need more oversight [more...]
Date: 2008-06-17 00:51:19
Market Monopoly
A bonus Friday afternoon guest post via Macro Man -- a portfolio manager at a London-based hedge fund, he trades global currencies, equities, fixed income, and commodities. Over a long and varied career, Macro Man has been an international economist, a sell-side currency strategist, and a currency options market-maker. His amusing Friday [more...]
Date: 2008-08-29 18:30:00
Open the Online trading account of Karvy
Karvy Fortune a business franchisee of Karvy Stock Broking Ltd, ... such as stock, commodities and insurance broking, investment banking, mutual funds distribution ... Advisor. http://www.karvy.com/v2/fortune/index.asp [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 10:06:40
Give me the physical, not the paper
#fullpost{display:inline;}Ambrose Evans Pritchard over at the Telegraph has filed this report (hat tip Domus) ... their stockbroker to buy shares of one of the many gold ETFs or some commodity futures contract ... ," he said, referring to exchange trade funds listed in London, New York, and other bourses [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 19:44:00
Re: Mike Masters on oil on CBS
Watch CBS Videos Online (email exchange) ... funds not being allowed to use passive commodity strategies as investments, but not sure it won’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 12:37:52
Systematic investing works best in crisis: JWH
Systematic investing works best in crisis: JWH December 10th, 2008 By Barani Krishnan NEW YORK (Reuters) ... in commodities said Tuesday. “In evaluating whether or not fundamentals matter, you really need ... as the broader hedge fund industry suffered heavy losses. JWH, which invests in commodities as well [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 20:42:29
OIL PRICE SHOCKS - THE REAL CULPRITS
It is clear as to who is driving up the prices of Crude and Commodities. It is not the producers or the demand supply gap that is making the lives of billions of people horrible. It is the traders, hedge funds and banking giants and large investors in Futures Commodity [more...]
Date: 2008-06-18 01:27:37
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