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When inflation falls from 9% to roughly 3%, investors may feel the worst is over. However, persistent inflation can still erode retirement purchasing power.
Amid two ongoing hot wars involving major energy-producing countries — the war in Iran and the Russia/Ukraine conflict — the commodities arena may appear to be a hazardous place for investors to allocate capital. But recent pullbacks by some commodities-linked equities could prove to be buying opportunities.
With megacap tech driving extreme market concentration, traditional equity and fixed income portfolios face growing structural challenges. A recent SS&C ALPS Advisors webcast, “Building Resilient Portfolios With Real Assets” — moderated by TMX VettaFi's Roxanna Islam alongside experts Carl Zeller and Richard Baker — demonstrated how incorporating real assets can help diversify your portfolio.
CoreCommodity Natural Resources ETF (NASDAQ: CCNR - Get Free Report) saw an uptick in trading volume on Monday. 134,258 shares traded hands during trading, an increase of 291% from the previous session's volume of 34,378 shares. The stock last traded at $39.01 and had previously closed at $38.77. CoreCommodity Natural Resources ETF Stock Performance The company
At the sector level, energy is king this year thanks in large part to the wars in Iran and Ukraine. Those ongoing conflicts are hampering exports from those nations.
Real assets are taking on a bigger role in portfolios as the global economy needs more physical infrastructure. SS&C ALPS Advisors offers several ETF strategies designed to capture different parts of the real-assets market.
With oil prices uncomfortably high, the same being true of inflation, and all the talk of a new supercycle dawning, it's not surprising commodities are in the spotlight. The asset class is garnering plenty of adulation this year.
As of August 25, the ALPS CoreCommodity Natural Resources ETF (CCNR) has returned 27.71% year-to-date amid natural resource tailwinds. The fund's gains come as the commodity complex has become increasingly fragmented, with gold near multi-month highs, copper testing record levels, and oil retreating from a geopolitically-driven spike.
SEC filings for CCNR aren't indexed yet (common for recently launched funds). Browse the issuer's filings on SEC EDGAR directly.