This paper examines the connectedness between Bitcoin and commodity volatilities, including oil, wheat, and corn, during the period Oct. 2013-Jun. 2018, using time- and frequency-domain frameworks. The time-domain framework's results show that the connectedness is 23.49%, indicating a low level...

This paper discusses how commodity returns had in the past mainly relied on portfolio effects and term-structure properties of individual commodity futures contracts. But the paper also notes that rare trend shifts, as occurred in the early 1970's, can also be a meaningful source of returns for...

Pursuing risk-based allocation across a universe of commodity assets, we find diversified risk parity (DRP) strategies to provide convincing results. DRP strives for maximum diversification along uncorrelated risk sources. A straightforward way to derive uncorrelated risk sources relies on...