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title: Commodity Futures Investment Process
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5286928/
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updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 5286928
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featured: 2025-06-11
citations: 0
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
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# Commodity Futures Investment Process

Hilary Till discusses the commodity investment universe, covering topics like investment focus, return rationale, portfolio construction, and risk management.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5286928
- Identifier: SSRN 5286928
- Released: 2004-09-02
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 101 (2025-06-11): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-06-11/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 0
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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