News about <![CDATA[DJP]]> News about en-us <![CDATA[The case for owning gold has collapsed]]> <![CDATA[Special Report: Alternative ETFs]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Don’t be a ‘Doomsday Prepper’ investor]]> <![CDATA[Trade Goldman’s Commodity Picks with These ETFs – ETF News And Commentary]]> <![CDATA[What You Need To Know About Commodity Indexes]]> For many investors, index investing continues to draw support in most portfolios. The proponents of the passive style of investing continue to grow as the poor returns of the “lost decade” have shown that active investment management, for the most part, fails to the beat the market–especially once trading costs, fund fees and taxes are taken into account. As index investing is relatively passive, index funds usually have lower management fees and expenses than actively-managed funds. As such, the number of stock and bond index funds and ETFs continues to grow, and that growth is also spreading into the commodity space [for more commodity news and analysis subscribe to our free newsletter]. See the full story here

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<![CDATA[Is Commodity Investing Dying? Part 1]]> Commodity futures markets were originally designed for producers to hedge their risks against unforeseen complications. But as the years went on, more and more retail investors began piling into this asset class, as they enjoyed the diversification benefits offered by hard assets. Now, many long-term buy and hold investors allocate anywhere from 5-20% of their assets to commodity holdings, but that trend may be hitting a roadblock [for more commodity news and analysis subscribe to our free newsletter]. See the full story here

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<![CDATA[Jim Rogers: Commodities ETFs to Benefit from Monetary Easing, Supply Issues]]> ]]> <![CDATA[What Are the Core Asset Classes for Total Return Portfolios?]]> asset-allocationby Geoff Considine One of the most important questions for investors and advisors is identifying a set of asset classes that will be considered for inclusion in a portfolio.  Some people will decide that all they need or want is one broad stock market index fund and one bond fund.  Others will choose to include Real [...]]]> <![CDATA[Commodities That Have Thrived Under President Obama]]> As an asset class, natural resources often get lumped together, falling under a single weighting in one’s investment portfolio. After all, the most popular approach by many retail investors is through an ETF or futures fund that tracks a basket of commodities. The PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking (DBC) and iPath DJ-UBS Commodity Index ETN (DJP) are two of the most popular options for investors [for more commodity news and analysis subscribe to our free newsletter].

However, natural resources are completely distinct animals and behave differently due to various demand, supply, weather and other external factors. Believe it or not, one of those external factors can be who’s in the White House. Since President Obama took office four years ago, a certain set of commodities have thrived in both production and price increases. With Obama winning another term, it stands to reason that these commodities have a good chance of seeing gains in the new term ahead. See the full story here

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<![CDATA[How Much Money Your Favorite Commodity ETFs Make]]> ETF investing turned the commodity world from a difficult-to-reach asset class to exposure that any retail investor could quickly add to their portfolio. The years have seen a number of innovative products come and go, but through thick and thin a select group of funds have broken away from the rest, as they have maintained their popularity. And just like any other business, these funds need to make money to stay open (and to hopefully make you money), as they have plenty of operating costs to take care of [for more commodity ETF analysis subscribe to our free newsletter]. See the full story here

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Neuberger Berman's Asset Allocation Committee just put forth a report on its 1o year outlook on various asset classes. It favors high yield bonds, emerging market bonds, large cap US stocks, emerging market stocks. It has neutral outlook for real estate investment trusts (REITs):...

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<![CDATA[Broad-Based Commodities ETFs Slip On Europe Fears (DBC ,DJP, DBA, MOO, JJC)]]> <![CDATA[Gold or Broad-Basket Commodity for Inflation Hedge? Morningstar Analysis]]> Gold-investingMorningstar’s Abraham Bailin’s analysis:  Inflation: use CPI Unexpected inflation: defined as year over year change in the CPI. Some conclusions based on his correlation studies: Gold has lower (thus worse) correlation with unexpected inflation, compared with S&P GSCI or DJ-UBS commodity index Gold rose the least when unexpected inflation is high Gold did better in daily [...]]]> <![CDATA[When Bigger Isn’t Better: Profiling ETF Alternatives To DJP, FXI, GLD]]> Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com.

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<![CDATA[Fund Review: Broadbase Commodities ETFs Are Weakest Among Risk Assets]]> river-flowsCommodities are considered to be an important asset class for asset allocation portfolios: they can be used as an inflation hedge. Broadbase commodity ETFs have been weak, mostly due to the weakness of agricultural commodities (DBA) and industrial base metals (DBB). Yesterday’s major Gold (GLD) correction did not help this either. The following major asset [...]]]> <![CDATA[List of Top Commodity ETFs]]> ]]> <![CDATA[ETF Chart of the Day: Commodities]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Commodity ETP Spotlight: DJP In Focus]]> See the full story here ]]> <![CDATA[Engineering Your Portfolios with ETFs]]> Wealthfront, a low cost online asset manager, recently published an elegant tutorial slideshow on how to use low cost ETFs to build a diversified portfolio based on Modern Portfolio Theory. Here is one of the slides: A technique called Efficient Frontier (or Mean Variance Optimization) can be used to decide the asset allocations (weights). MyPlanIQ’s [...]]]> <![CDATA[ETF Chart of the Day: Commodities]]> ]]> <![CDATA[ETF Review: Not All Broadbase Commodity Index ETFs Are The Same]]> Commodity broadbase index funds are well recognized as a portfolio diversifier. This is especially true in current global deficit spending driven economies. Recently, more and more retirement investments such as 401K investments, 403B investments and variable annuity investments started to offer such choices. In ETF investing, there are various commodity broadbase ETFs. The following table [...]]]> <![CDATA[How ETF Investors Can Save $415 Million (Without Breaking A Sweat)]]> Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com.

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