Download or read book Issues Involving the Use of the Futures Markets to Invest in Commodity Indexes written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Issues Involving the Use of the Futures Markets to Invest in Commodity Indexes written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues Involving the Use of the Futures Markets to Invest in Commodity Indexes
Download or read book Issues Involving the Use of the Futures Markets to Invest in Commodity Indexes written by Orice M. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Handbook of Commodity Investing written by Frank J. Fabozzi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-06-02 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with a comprehensive collection of information from experts in the commodity investment industry, this detailed guide shows readers how to successfully incorporate commodities into their portfolios. Created with both the professional and individual investor in mind, The Handbook of Commodity Investments covers a wide range of issues, including the risk and return of commodities, diversification benefits, risk management, macroeconomic determinants of commodity investments, and commodity trading advisors. Starting with the basics of commodity investments and moving to more complex topics, such as performance measurement, asset pricing, and value at risk, The Handbook of Commodity Investments is a reliable resource for anyone who needs to understand this dynamic market.
Download or read book Commodity Investing written by Adam Dunsby and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-02-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straightforward and accessible, Commodity Investing balances academic-quality analysis with clear, compelling prose, and provides those interested in this fast-growing field with unparalleled investment insights. Page by page, you’ll acquire a deeper understanding of this discipline and discover how to make more informed decisions when investing in such a dynamic environment. With this book as your guide, you’ll benefit from the lessons of experienced practitioners and quickly come to grips with what it takes to make it in today’s commodity market.
Download or read book Commodities written by Harold Kent Baker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commodities: Markets, Performance, and Strategies provides a comprehensive look at commodity markets along many dimensions. Its coverage includes physical commodity fundamentals, financial products and strategies for commodity exposure, and current issues relating to commodities. Readers interested in commodity market basics or more nuanced details related to commodity investment can benefit.
Download or read book Intelligent Commodity Indexing A Practical Guide to Investing in Commodities written by Robert Greer and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SECRETS TO CAPITALIZING ON THE COMMODITIES BOOM In the mid-1970s, when Bob Greer scrolled through miles of microfilm in the basement of a public library in order to record commodity prices in his yellow legal pad, the idea of commodities being an investable asset class was way outside the mainstream. Now, it's a multibilliondollar vehicle for achieving portfolio diversification and inflation hedging--and he and his colleagues have written the book on earning better returns than the indexes themselves! In Intelligent Commodity Indexing, Bob joins his fellow leaders of PIMCO's Commodity Practice, Nic Johnson and Mihir Worah, in opening up commodity indexes. Never before has there been a more thorough explanation of how a commodity index works coupled with a powerful set of strategies for making it work for you. Inside, you'll find the most up-to-date tools and time-proven best practices for earning "structural alpha" by capitalizing on recurring risk and liquidity premiums in the commodities markets. It offers the right amount of history and theory to reinforce cuttingedge techniques for: Interpreting how seasonal effects change risk premia Choosing the most profitable market for specific commodity exposure Using intelligent commodity indexing to collect risk premiums in the options market Maximizing roll yield in order to increase long-term returns Managing risk, including specific frameworks and systems Investors gain a superior advantage with this book's coverage of the nuts-and-bolts workings of various markets. Praise for Intelligent Commodity Indexing "A seminal work on an asset class that has grown in importance within institutional portfolios. The authors offer considerable insight to this complex asset class and provide investors with a thorough examination of the drivers of risk and return." -- Julia K. Bonafede, CFA, President of Wilshire Consulting "This is an excellent guide for professional investors to successful investing in commodity indexes." -- Blythe Masters, Head of Global Commodities, JP Morgan "A manual written by successful practitioners for intelligent commodity investors. An excellent guide which explains how this asset class complements and interacts with other investments." -- Alan H. Van Noord, CFA, Chief Investment Officer, Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System "Commodities are invaluable tools for investors wishing to benefit from diversification and inflation hedging. For such an investor, this is the authoritative source to all you need to know about commodity indexing." -- Mark Makepeace, Chief Executive, FTSE Group "Greer, Johnson, and Worah simply explain the critical drivers to commodity index returns that have provided the main historical benefits of diversification and inflation protection. Every commodity index investor, or hopeful investor, should read this book and use it as a guide for evaluating the relevant index characteristics for benchmarking and investing, especially given recent industry innovations." -- Jodie Gunzberg, CFA, Director-Commodities, S&P Indexes
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Investing in Commodity Trading and Futures written by Mary B. Holihan and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people have become very rich in the commodity markets. It is one of a few investment areas where an individual with limited capital can make extraordinary profits in a relatively short period of time. Commodities are agreements to buy and sell virtually anything that is harvested except onions. (A 1958 federal law prohibits trading onions.) Such goods are raw or partly refined materials whose value mainly reflects the costs of finding or gathering them. They are traded for processing or incorporation into final goods. Examples are crude oil, cotton, rubber, grains, and metals and other minerals. Since it is impractical to transport these bulky, often perishable materials, what is actually traded are commodities futures contracts, or options, that are agreements to buy or sell at an agreed upon price on a specific date. Trading in futures and options is speculative in nature and there is a substantial risk of loss. These investments are not suitable for everyone, and only risk capital should be used. As with many other business segments, the Internet and technology have opened up this attractive marketplace to a new breed of individual investors and speculators working part-time. You and I can now stand on an even playing field with the largest banks, wealthiest individuals, and trading institutions from the comfort of home. Commodity trading can provide you with very high, secure rate of return, in some cases as high as 12%, 18%, 24%, or even 300% or more per year. If performed correctly, commodity trading will far outpace all other investments. The key is to know how to perform this process correctly. This all sounds great, but what is the catch? There really is none, except you must know what you are doing! This book will provide everything you need to know to get you started generating high investment returns from start to finish. In this easy to read and comprehensive book you will learn what commodity trading and futures are, how to set up your account online, how to choose software to use in trading, how to invest in commodities, evaluate their performance, and handle fees and taxes. This book explores numbers of investing strategies and tactics, charting techniques, and position trading. You will pick up the language of a trader so that you recognize terminology and know how to use leverage, call options, put options, advancing and declining issues, advancing and declining volume, the Commodity Channel Index (CCI), and commodity charts, among others. Like the pros who have been trading commodities for years, you will learn how to pinpoint entry, exits, and targets for your trades, and use insider secrets to help you double or even triple your investment all while avoiding the common traps and pitfalls. Aside from learning the basics of commodity and futures trading you will be privy to their secrets and proven successful ideas. Instruction is great, but advice from experts is even better, and the experts chronicled in this book are earning millions. If you are interested in learning essentially everything there is to know about commodity and futures investing in addition to hundreds of tactics, tricks, and tips on how to earn enormous profits in commodity trading while controlling your investments, then this book is for you. Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company presidentâe(tm)s garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date, pertinent information, real-world examples, and case studies with expert advice. Every book has resources, contact information, and web sites of the products or companies discussed.
Download or read book The Impact of Index Investments in Commodity Futures Markets written by Marc Christian Burkhardt and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis explores the impact of index investments in commodity futures markets. Given that the literature failed to reach a widely-accepted explanation, the thesis aims to improve the understanding of the effects of commodity index investments. It argues that the advent of index-related products induced commodity prices to drive away from fundamental demand and supply. The thesis analyzes nineteen index commodities and five off-index commodities that trade on U.S. exchanges. Motivated by the hedging pressure theory, it introduces the risk premium as a new and market-based measure for commodity index investments. A comparison to the CFTC reports suggests that they exhibit substantial measurement error. A decrease in the risk premium is only documented for index commodities across all sectors but not for off-index commodities. This is consistent with the claim that the inflow of index investors reduced the natural imbalance between short and long positions and lowered the required incentive to take long positions. Moreover, the thesis presents new evidence that index investors have a significantly positive effect on commodity futures prices, after controlling for macroeconomic and commodity-specific variables. The largest impacts in energy markets are attributed to the energy dominance of the most widely tracked index S\ & P GSCI. The findings of this thesis are especially relevant for the implementation of new policies and regulations that are designed to curb detrimental effects of commodity index investing.
Download or read book Commodity Trading Advisors written by Greg N. Gregoriou and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative, up-to-date research and analysis that provides a dramatic new understanding of the rewards-and risks-of investing in CTAs Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) are an increasingly popular and potentially profitable investment alternative for institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals. Commodity Trading Advisors is one of the first books to study their performance in detail and analyze the "survivorship bias" present in CTA performance data. This book investigates the many benefits and risks associated with CTAs, examining the risk/return characteristics of a number of different strategies deployed by CTAs from a sophisticated investor's perspective. A contributed work, its editors and contributing authors are among today's leading voices on the topic of commodity trading advisors and a veritable "Who's Who" in hedge fund and CTA research. Greg N. Gregoriou (Plattsburgh, NY) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance and Research Coordinator in the School of Business and Economics at the State University of New York. Vassilios N. Karavas (Amherst, MA) is Director of Research at Schneeweis Partners. Francois-Serge Lhabitant (Coppet, Switzerland) is a FAME Research Fellow, and a Professor of Finance at EDHEC (France) and at HEC University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Fabrice Rouah (Montreal, Quebec) is Institut de Finance Mathématique de Montréal Scholar in the finance program at McGill University.
Download or read book Speculation by Commodity Index Funds written by Scott H. Irwin and published by CABI. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commodity futures prices exploded in 2007-2008 and concerns about a new type of speculative participant in commodity futures markets began to emerge. The main argument was that unprecedented buying pressure from new "commodity index" investors created massive bubbles that resulted in prices substantially exceeding fundamental value. At the time, it was not uncommon to link concerns about speculation and high prices to world hunger, food crises, and civil unrest. Naturally, this outcry resulted in numerous regulatory proposals to restrict speculation in commodity futures markets. This book presents important research on the impact of index investment on commodity futures prices that the authors conducted over the last fifteen years. The eleven articles presented in the book follow the timeline of our involvement in the world-wide debate about index funds as it evolved after 2007. We also include an introductory chapter, new author forewords for each article chapter, and a lessons learned chapter to round out the book. Policy-makers, researchers, and market participants will find the book not only functions as useful documentation of the debate; but, also as a natural starting point when high commodity prices inevitably create the next speculation backlash.
Download or read book Intelligent Commodity Investing written by Hilary Till and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only multi-contributor book on commodity investment offering a breadth of opinions for sophisticated investors. It looks at commodity investment from the following perspectives: the investor, the active manager, the commodity index provider, the risk manager, and the researcher. In response to the rapid growth in the market, this timely publication will bring you up to speed on the trends and challenges of commodity investment, providing you with a practical investment framework. It is a recommended reading for hedge fund managers, pension fund consultants, mutual fund portfolio managers, endowment chief investment officers, futures traders, family office investors, commodity trading advisers, brokers, dealers and MBA students researching this important subject.
Download or read book Commodity Index Investing and Commodity Futures Prices written by Hans R. Stoll and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, commodity index investing has come under attack. A Staff Report by the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation (hereafter, the “subcommittee report”) “...finds that there is significant and persuasive evidence to conclude that these commodity index traders, in the aggregate, were one of the major causes of 'unwarranted changes' -- here increases -- in the price of wheat futures contracts relative to the price of wheat in the cash market.” The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive evaluation of whether commodity index investing is a disruptive force not only in the wheat futures market in particular but in the commodity futures market in general. We conclude that: a) commodity index investing is not speculation; b) commodity index rolls have little futures price impact, and inflows and outflows from commodity index investment do not cause futures prices to change; and, c) the failure of the wheat futures price to converge to the cash price at the contract's expiration has not undermined the futures contract's effectiveness as a risk management tool.
Download or read book CFTC Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-07 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commodity Index Investing written by Filip Rusescu and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commodity Trading and Investing written by Zeyu Zheng and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to provide professional traders with the necessary analytical tools for informed commodity trading on both futures contracts and index instruments. Subjects discussed include fundamental and technical analysis, trend following, spread trading, commodity ETFs and ETNs. Advanced topics on commodity price behavior are also covered in non-technical terms. The book will be of interest to proprietary traders, investment managers, and sophisticated individual investors. The readers would expect to have a base of knowledge that will allow them to construct their own specific commodity trading and investing strategies according to individual needs.
Download or read book Commodity Index Investing written by Hans R. Stoll and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of seemingly unrelated commodities experienced simultaneous price spikes recently. Congress investigated the increase in prices and concluded that the price increases were not attributable to fundamentals but rather to commodity index investing. The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether commodity index investing is a disruptive force in commodity futures market. We conclude that: (a) due to its passive, long-only nature, commodity index investing is not speculation and (b) commodity index flows, whether due to rolling over existing futures positions or establishing new ones, have little impact on futures prices.
