So far in 2022, commodities have been among the best-performing asset classes. In fact, over the last one- and two-year periods, the Bloomberg Commodity Index1 has outperformed the S&P 500 Index2 and the MSCI ACWI ex USA Index.3 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has accelerated trends that were already firmly in place. In this article we highlight the following topics:
1 Bloomberg Commodity Index comprise families of investable benchmarks and systematic strategies designed to provide exposure to a broad universe of physical commodities, with no single commodity or category dominating the index.
2 S&P 500 Index is a market capitalization-weighted price index composed of 500 widely held common stocks.
3 MSCI ACWI ex USA Index is a broad-based, unmanaged, market capitalization weighted, total-return index that measures the performance of both developed and emerging stock markets, excluding the US. MSCI index performance is shown net of dividend withholding tax.
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