Commodities: Investment-flow sense and nonsense

Commodities: Investors plough a new furrow in agri-finance

Commodities: Investors plough a new furrow in agri-finance

The amount of money invested in commodities and particularly the amount of new investment inflows has attracted enormous attention. Unfortunately much of the analysis on the subject has been ill founded and confused.

According to Barclays Capital, the scale of index investments in commodity markets in particular is being hugely overestimated because of flawed methodologies and because much of the rise in assets under management that is actually due to rising prices is being misclassified as new inflows.

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