Investors Head for Exit as Commodities Extend Slump – Bloomberg 09-30-14

Salient to Investors: Investors pulled the most money from US ETPs backed by raw materials since April. US corn and soybean crops are the biggest ever, global stockpiles of nickel are at an all-time high, the US is producing the most oil since 1986, while China is headed for its slowest

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Gold to Coffee Drive Bullish Bets to 17-Month High – Bloomberg 02-25-14

Salient to Investors: Hedge funds’ net-long positions of 18 US-traded commodities rose 18 percent last week to the highest since September 2012. Investors tripled the net-long position in arabica coffee this month to the most bullish since May 2011 Barclays said weather is the big driver of commodities. EPFR Global

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The 2014 Contrarian Investment Tour, From Rupees to Copper – Bloomberg 12-10-13

Salient to Investors: Lewis Braham writes: Contrarian funds can be a hedge of sorts, though a potentially volatile one as out-of-favor sectors tend to be cyclical and prone to booms and busts. Shorting is inherently dangerous as markets have been trending higher. Brian Singer at William Blair Macro Allocation Fund

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Goldman Says Buy H-Shares Amid Growth: China Overnight – Bloomberg 12-02-13

Salient to Investors: Noah Weisberger at Goldman Sachs said: The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index will rise 18 percent to 13,600 by the end of 2014, the biggest gain since a rise of 62 percent in 2009, on prospects the economy will stabilize. Commodities will lag the rally in equities.

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Stocks Triumph 3rd Month in Best Run Since ’09 as Gold Sinks – Bloomberg 12-01-13

Salient to Investors: Bill O’Neill at UBS Wealth Mgmt said the story is still the combination of easy money policies and expectations of growth into 2014 and that growth is on the horizon. The Investment Companies Institute reports individual investors gave $30 billion to managers in 2013, the first net

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Our Chat With Jeremy Grantham – The Wall Street Journal 09-20-13

Salient to Investors: Jeremy Grantham at GMO said: Commodity prices fell for a hundred years by an average of 70 percent, and then from 2002 basically everything tripled and regained the whole decline in 6 years – tobacco was the only commodity that fell. The game changed because of the

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Hedge Funds Trim Gold Bets on Stimulus Speculation – Bloomberg 08-12-13

Salient to Investors: Hedge funds cut net-long gold positions by the most since June. while holdings of short contracts rose 26 percent. Net-bullish bets across 18 US-traded raw materials dropped to the lowest since March and a measure of bets on agricultural commodities turned negative for the first time. Holdings in global ETPs backed

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