What You Need To Know About Commodity Indexes

For many investors, index investing continues to draw support in most portfolios. The proponents of the passive style of investing continue to grow as the poor returns of the “lost decade” have shown that active investment management, for the most part, fails to the beat the market–especially once trading costs, fund fees and taxes are taken into account. As index investing is relatively passive, index funds usually have lower management fees and expenses than actively-managed funds. As such, the number of stock and bond index funds and ETFs continues to grow, and that growth is also spreading into the commodity space [for more commodity news and analysis subscribe to our free newsletter ]. See the full story here → Related Posts: Is Commodity Investing Dying? Part 1 How Much Money Your Favorite Commodity ETFs Make Commodity ETFs: Five Factors To Consider How Balanced Is Your Commodity ETF? Commodities That Have Thrived Under President Obama