The role of financial investors in commodity derivatives markets, especially in agricultural commodity derivatives markets, has been fiercely debated since 2008. In a recent report SOMO concluded that there now is enough evidence of the distorting effect of these financial investments on futures...

A literature is rapidly developing on financial shocks originating from ecological imbalances. These shocks can be triggered by either intensified environmental policies, clean tech breakthroughs or due to the economic costs of crossing ecological boundaries. However, financial supervisors have...