Active Commodity Futures Strategies: The Importance of Risk Management and Implementation Discipline

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Hilary Till

Premia Research LLC; Commodity Insights Digest (a publication of Bayes Business School)

Joseph Eagleeye

Premia Research LLC

Date Written: May 15, 2005

Abstract

In this paper, we note how a set of active commodity strategies could potentially add value to an investor’s commodity allocation. But we also emphasize the due care that must be taken in both risk management and implementation discipline.

Keywords: Commodity futures, hedge fund, risk management, sources of returns, investment process

JEL Classification: G1, G11, G23

Suggested Citation

Till, Hilary and Eagleeye, Joseph, Active Commodity Futures Strategies: The Importance of Risk Management and Implementation Discipline (May 15, 2005). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2628534 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2628534

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