DBA - Time To Consider Commodities After A Difficult Decade
By Nitesh Shah, Director of Research, WisdomTree Europe & Aneeka Gupta, Associate Director, Research
Any investor who has allocated to commodities over the last decade has experienced a difficult ride.
Consider:
- We've had blockbuster returns in the S&P 500 Index over the last 10 years, at more than 13% per year.
- High-quality U.S. fixed income, as seen in the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Index, generated returns of approximately 3.5% per year, even with historically low interest rates.
In contrast, the Thomson Reuters Equal Weight Commodity Total Return Index, after keeping pace with U.S. equities from