Recently, commodity index investing has come under attack. A Staff Report by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation (hereafter, the "subcommittee report") "…finds that there is significant and persuasive evidence to conclude that these commodity index traders, in the...

A number of seemingly unrelated commodities experienced simultaneous price spikes recently. Congress investigated the increase in prices and concluded that the price increases were not attributable to fundamentals but rather to commodity index investing. The purpose of this study is to evaluate...

Recently, commodity index investing has come under attack. A Staff Report by the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation (hereafter, the “subcommittee report”) “…finds that there is significant and persuasive evidence to conclude that these commodity index traders, in the...