Abstract: This paper examines the performance evaluation between the individual commodities and commodity mutual funds based on the returns and risk using the monthly data for the period 2011 to 2017. When managed properly, commodity investments have historically represented the asset class most highly correlated with inflation and least correlated with stock and bond returns. In other words, commodities are a hedge against inflation and a tool for diversification. Commodity mutual fund yield better return and minimised risk. Investing in commodities is one of the best means of hedging a portfolio that is otherwise dominated by stocks against unexpected financial or political crises or ordinary economic downturns. It’s found evidence that differences in performance between individual commodity and commodity mutual funds persist over time and that this persistence is consistent with the ability of fund managers to earn abnormal returns.
Keywords: commodity, Funds, Mutual Funds, Performance, Return, Volatility, Growth.
Title: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF COMMODITY MARKETS AND COMMODITY MUTUAL FUNDS
Author: SATHISHA H K
International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations
ISSN 2348-7585 (Online)
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