When you actually conduct studies of relationships that people ASSUME exist, you find that they rarely actually exist. Investigating stochastic behavior of the prices and volatility of of the leading commodity markets and comparing them to the debt and equity markets, produces a very interesting result. We observe a substantial degree of uniformity in the behavior of the series. It is totally inappropriate to treat different kinds of commodities as a single asset class. Agriculture, metals, meats, etc.., are normally treated as a single asset class in the academic literature and in the investment industry. However, commodities can be a useful diversification to equity volatility as well as equity returns if truly managed as separate asset classes. Risk measurement, options pricing, and hedging strategies exemplify the economic impacts of the differences across commodity spectrum correlated to equity and debt markets. We will be including these studies in the future for asset class allocations.
Asset Class Allocations
Posted Jan 29, 2013 by Martin Armstrong |
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