If you’ve ever winced at the gas pump or watched headlines about oil prices fluctuating wildly, you may have wondered: Should I be investing in oil? The truth is, oil remains one of the most powerful ...

When considering the risk of an asset, it’s important to realize that it is not always possible to capture its potential benefit if you focus only on returns and covariances over a one-year investment ...

In this series on portfolio basics, I’ll explain some of the fundamentals of putting together sound portfolios. I’ll start with some of the most widely used types of investments and walk through what ...

This article was written by Jim Wiederhold, Commodity Indices Product Manager at Bloomberg. Commodities are unique, with their drivers of performance differing from the more traditional asset classes.