Interview Olivier Combastet: « The purchase of farmlands is a good investment! »
Since 2006, Pergam Finances has invested in farmlands located in Argentina and Uruguay. For first in investors, the latent gain is above 40%...
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Strategy The University of Texas Investment Management Co. to hold $1 billion in gold bars
The endowment, which oversees funds held by the University of Texas took delivery of almost $1 billion in gold bullion as a hedge against inflation
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Innovation Nobles Crus, the perfect blend of wine and finance
Launched in 2008, Nobles Crus is a Luxembourg Sicav investing in the top graded wines and that has registered since launch a performance of 27.65%.
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Opinion Gold, mines and natural resources: Acceleration in momentum
After testing the $1200/oz. support in early July ($1204.7/oz. on 10 July), the gold price once again took on the psychological resistance level of $1300/oz. It brushed up against this barrier once, on 18 August ($1301/oz.), but not until late in the month did it cross it at (...)
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Opinion Fair trade, angel or demon ?
As citizens movements connect politically and economically, fair trade talks about itself. A fair and equitable trade, what is more decent in appearance ? But in order to determine the fair part of trade, we need beforehand to determine what we mean by this (...)
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Opinion Gold, Mines and Natural Resources: The greenback picks up
Having reached their highest point since August 2016 ($1,357.6/oz), gold prices slumped, falling below $1,300/oz and weighing on their 100-day average. Janet Yellen’s more hawkish speech at the last FOMC pushed up to 70% the likelihood the Fed will raise key rates in (...)
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Opinion Oil : turning point is at hand
Roberto Cominotto, Investment Director for energy equities at GAM, is convinced that a sustainable turning point in the oil market is within reach, thanks to the decline in US production.
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Innovation Legal & General IM and Source offer a new index for commodity investment
The fund, which tracks the LGIM Commodity Composite Index, is designed to offer high quality, diversified exposure to commodities in a UCITS-compliant ETF...
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News Grains and oilseeds world market is under pressure
Several regions in Australia, including Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria area, have been suffering from floods for weeks. The three regions mentionned alone contribute for 42% of national wheat production and 75% of national rapeseed (...)
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Innovation Euronext announces launch of new premium milling wheat No. 3 contract
Euronext, the primary exchange in the Eurozone, is announcing the launch at the beginning of March 2015 of its new premium milling wheat no. 3 contract, subject to final regulatory approval.
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Opinion Oil markets to barrel forward in 2011
The energy sector is turning a corner and we are at the early stages of a new upward cycle in oil markets, according to Robin Batchelor, manager of BlackRock’s BGF World Energy Fund...
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Strategy Climate Change and agriculture : risks and opportunities
According to Schroders’ Climate Change investment team, climate change acts as a threat multiplier to the sector on top of the dual impacts of the increased demand and decreased supply, and that this will present various investment opportunities throughout the value (...)
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Strategy Commodities at peak bearishness, presenting major opportunity
ETF Securities, one of the world’s leading, independent providers of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), believes commodity markets may be close to their most attractive ever after continued levels of bearishness.
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Opinion Assessing the oil price shock
The sharp fall in oil prices during the second half of 2014 turned out to be one of the most significant themes of the year. In this piece, Salman Ahmed, Strategist Fixed Income at Lombard Odier IM discusses the economic transmission mechanism and asset market implications (...)
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Strategy Investing during market turmoil
The idea that considers equity investing as long term has simply become absurd nowadays and has been so during the last 10 years. Let us be reassured. Opportunities will still be around. The only real question nowadays is how to allocate between real assets and financial (...)
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