Hedging basic materials equity portfolios using gold futures
Viktorija Stasytytė,
Nijolė Maknickienė,
Raimonda Martinkutė-Kaulienė
Abstract:Commodities can be treated as an alternative investment, a hedging strategy, or a diversification opportunity. Various types of commodities, especially metals, usually are not strongly affected by inflation, and the trends of their prices are not correlated with other investment instruments. To participate in the metals area of the commodity market, an investor can buy shares of companies from the basic materials sector. Such companies are involved in discovering, developing, and processing raw materials. Howe… Show more
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