Mutual funds have made commodity investing accessible to a much wider range of investors, not just the rich individuals able to participate in hedge funds. Unlike hedge funds, however, there are ...

We added a commodity-focused fund to the Kiplinger 25, our favorite no-load mutual funds, two years ago because of rising inflation. Since then, however, inflation rates have declined and, on the ...

DoubleLine Capital, the investment firm overseen by Jeffrey Gundlach, on Monday opened a new mutual fund to give investors exposure to commodities markets and help them diversify. The DoubleLine ...

Mutual fund feeds and expenses are charges that may be incurred by investors who hold mutual funds. Running a mutual fund involves costs, including shareholder transaction costs, investment advisory ...

Gold mutual funds offer investors exposure to the yellow precious metal, which has been red-hot this year. But a caveat is ...

Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that invest in commodities and real estate investment trusts have made it possible to use these alternative investments even in very small portfolios. For ...

Just weeks after launching its first commodities exchange-traded fund, a unit of Jefferies & Co. Inc. last week launched two similar ETFs: one focused on agriculture and another on industrial metals.

A former money manager at Newport Beach-based Pacific Investments Management Co. and his Aliso Viejo-based firm have been tapped to manage a commodities mutual fund. John Brynjolfsson, managing ...

Jon in Tacoma, Wash., has been thinking that commodity funds might diversify his portfolio in these tough economic times, putting him into hard assets or real assets that are not a part of a standard ...

SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China's mutual fund industry is pushing to develop investment products linked to local commodity futures, betting that plans to fight chronic oversupply in the country's ...

The investment seeks total return, which includes long-term capital appreciation. The fund pursues its investment objective by investing globally across a wide range of asset classes, including ...