Commodities – Active Strategies for Enhanced Return

In this article, the authors note how a set of active commodity strategies could potentially add value to an investor’s commodity allocation. But they also emphasize the due care that must be taken in risk management and implementation discipline, given the “violence of the fluctuations which normally affect the prices of many … commodities,” as Keynes (1934) put it. A revisited version of this paper was published in the Fall 2005 issue of The Journal of Wealth Management.