{"id":4000,"date":"2006-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"commodities-the-new-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2006\/commodities-the-new-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Commodities the new hedge funds &#8211; Credit Suisse &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ArticleBodyText\">IPE.com &#8211; Commodities could become more popular than hedge funds among institutional investors, according to Credit Suisse.<\/p>\n<p>According to a spokesperson, pension funds find commodities quite \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201ccompelling\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d, especially because they are less expensive than hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>Most schemes are allocating roughly 5% to commodities. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThey don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t just want to dip a toe in the water, but make a meaningful contribution,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d said the spokesperson. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cBelow this, there is less of animpact,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the allocation to commodities is coming at the expense of lower allocations in equities, said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released today, Credit Suisse stated it believes commodities answer the fundamental need of institutional investors for long-term strategic diversification and urged investment in abroad commodities index.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipe.com\/article_default.asp?article=20292&amp;cid=0\" target=\"_self\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPE.com &#8211; Commodities could become more popular than hedge funds among institutional investors, according to Credit Suisse. According to a spokesperson, pension funds find commodities quite \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201ccompelling\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d, especially because they are less expensive than hedge funds. Most schemes are allocating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}