ISHARES GSCI CMDTY (GSG)

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    Fred Banks
    Oct 06 09:36 AM
    The Professor Of Commodities: Interview with James Doran (Part II) [view article]
    It's not easy to be a professor in this forum, as I initially found out, but it soon became easy for me because I don't write or talk about things that I don't know more about than most people. Aside from that, it is certainly possible that Professor Doran knows more than I do about finance, because my interest in that topic has slackened, but as for oil and gas, 'he could have stood in bed', as somebody said.

    The basic problem is this: energy economics is still being taught by the wrong people, despite the fact that everybody has found out about the importance of this topic.

    Professor Ferdinand E. Banks (Fred)     Reply
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    mzcap
    Oct 04 11:16 PM
    My Website
    How to Invest Like Yale's David Swensen [view article]
    There is a more up-to-date article on this subject - All-weather portfolio: how Harvard and Yale endowments invest for bad times

    investmentscientist.co.../

    (or the Website like to the left)     Reply
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    bigmoney
    Oct 03 07:13 PM
    Stocks vs. Commodities: Which is a Better Investment? [view article]
    I am not sure why this is. Maybe owners of capital have more leverage than owners of commodities, geo-politically speaking. Reply
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    ETF STER
    Oct 03 11:03 AM
    The Professor Of Commodities: Interview with James Doran (Part II) [view article]
    I agree. Anyone that knows even a little about commodities knows that the prices fluctuate. Go back to teaching! Those that can, do, those that can't, teach. Reply
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    Alex_G
    Oct 02 06:09 PM
    The Professor Of Commodities: Interview with James Doran (Part II) [view article]
    complete waste of bandwith, time, etc. Reply
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    Whidbey
    Oct 02 05:22 PM
    The Professor Of Commodities: Interview with James Doran (Part II) [view article]
    Don't bother to read it twice because your first reading was correct: it is empty of meaning. Why ?? Reply
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    cjct
    Oct 02 05:02 PM
    The Professor Of Commodities: Interview with James Doran (Part II) [view article]
    Amen... Reply
  • commenter
    Think-About-
    It
    Oct 02 02:48 PM
    The Professor Of Commodities: Interview with James Doran (Part II) [view article]
    the professor is good at saying nothing. Reply
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    Kunst
    Sep 28 09:21 PM
    Bespoke's Commodity Snapshot (9/22/08) [view article]
    It would be nice to see soybeans on this list. Reply
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    VistaFin
    Sep 26 05:23 PM
    Yawning from the Market Sidelines, ETFs in Hand [view article]
    If you wanted a small cap/value slat in a lazy portfolio you could mix up the folowing

    10% VB Small cap MSCI 1750
    10% VBR Small cap MSCI 1750 Value
    10% VV Large cap MSCI 750
    10% VTV Large cap MSCI 750 Value
    30% VEU FSTE all world ex-us
    30% Intermediate Term Bond Portfolio


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    mzcap
    Sep 26 08:11 AM
    My Website
    Asset Class Investing: A Strategy For Both Bull and Bear Markets [view article]
    Check out this article on Harvard-Yale style multi-asset investing

    All-weather portfolio: how Harvard and Yale invest for bad times

    (Click the Website link to the left.)     Reply
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    cma cma
    Sep 23 01:29 PM
    A Rundown of Broad Commodities Indexes [view article]
    Who backs these ETNs, that is the important question? Reply
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    JavaBen
    Sep 19 08:27 PM
    Yawning from the Market Sidelines, ETFs in Hand [view article]
    Suggestion regarding your book - when I saw your site, I saw the picture of your book at the top left. I clicked on it thinking it would take me to a link about the book - wrong - so I decided it wasn't a book. Only much later did I see a link for your book. People expect to be able to click on a picture of a book and get to the book. Let it work for you! Reply
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    gamma65
    Sep 18 06:14 PM
    My Website
    The Global Food Crisis and Gold’s Valuable Role [view article]
    The equity and bond markets have benefited from a long period of low inflation, but ongoing and massive central bank liquidity injections point to a far less benign environment of elevated inflation ahead. Research by our firm, Agcapita Partners (Calgary, Canada, based farmland private equity firm) shows investors must be prepared to rotate into asset classes with different characteristics.

    During the last commodity bull market & high inflation period in the 1970’s, equities materially underperformed farmland. Western Canadian farmland went from around $100/acre to $550/acre (550% total return and 176% in inflation adjusted terms), cash held in a money market account barely kept ahead of inflation (6% inflation adjusted return) and the S&P 500 index returned less than 2% per year (a loss of almost 50% in inflation in adjusted terms)

    We believe the world is still in the early stages of this current commodity bull market. When agriculture commodities prices are compared against their previous inflation adjusted highs they are significantly discounted implying scope for further increases:
     Corn is US$ 5/bushel currently compared to US$16/bushel in 1974,
     Wheat is US$ 7/bushel currently compared to US$27/bushel in 1974
     Canadian farmland is C$ 660/acre currently compared to C$1,100/acre in 1981

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    myjunk1
    Sep 18 01:59 PM
    Yawning from the Market Sidelines, ETFs in Hand [view article]
    how do you calculate the monthly price? Reply
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