Long-Term Commodity Investment Strategy

(Harvest) When you think of commodity market performance, what’s one of the first things you think of? Positive or negative performance? For anyone who has invested over the past 10 years, the answer has been mostly negative… and even when it hasn’t been, commodity markets cyclical moves up and down tends to be at odds with the way the stock market moves (generally up and to the right). All of this is to say, commodity “exposure” in a portfolio has left a lot to be desired recently, with leading ETFs like $DBC down -45% and $GSG down -55% over the past three years (Disclaimer: past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results), and financial bloggers like Josh Brown taking their digs.

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