Portfolio investment: Are commodities useful?

Index Investment and the Financialization of Commodities

The authors found that, concurrent with the rapidly growing index investment in commodity markets since the early 2000s, prices of non-energy commodity futures in the United States have become increasingly correlated with oil prices; this trend has been significantly more pronounced for commodities in two popular commodity indices. This finding reflects the financialization of the commodity mar...

Investment Portfolio Performance Evaluation

Most people who contract with financial managers do not have much understanding of how much benefit paid support provides them in terms of investment return. Similarly, most people who manage their own portfolios do not know how well they are doing with respect to the rest of the financial market – they simply define a successful portfolio by a positive return on investment. The goal of this pr...

Sex and Portfolio Investment

We attempt to answer why sex is nearly ubiquitous when asexual reproduction is ostensibly more efficient than sexual reproduction. From the perspective of a genetic allele, each individual bearing that allele is akin to a stock share yielding dividends equal to that individual’s number of offspring, and the totality of individuals bearing the allele is its portfolio investment. Alleles compete ...

Do Democracies Attract Portfolio Investment?

Gravity and culture in foreign portfolio investment

a College of Business Administration, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325, USA b Business School and Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland c Business School and Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland, and Glasgow School for Business, Glasgow Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road Glasgow G...