Debbie Carlson
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119 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2024
last heard Jan 2025
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So when you buy an ETF, you want to definitely look under the hood like you would with a stock ETF.
Most commodities indexes will have exposure to the major markets.
So you want to look to find something that has exposure to energy, crude oil, for instance, natural gas.
Look for something that has exposure to gold and corn.
And then look at the weightings, like how much energy, how much gold, and compare ETFs to see, is this the exposure that I want?
There are some individual ETFs out there like just gold or just energy.
But again, having a broad base means that you don't have to follow the individual fundamentals of a particular commodity.
A financial professional can talk to a client and ask them, what are your goals?
Why you have this interest in owning commodities?
Because certain commodities have different impacts on a portfolio.
Like, for instance, gold may be more of a safe haven.
purchase.
Broad-based commodities like agriculture could be more of an inflationary purchase.
And again, this is why having a broad-based index is a good way to go about it.
Generally, like in our current macro environment with inflation is still above 2%, you have geopolitical uncertainty, climate change causing more extreme weather.
A financial professional will look at like how much of the portfolio do we want to carve out to be this hedge?
And currently they're saying about 5% in a broad based portfolio.
And when we break that down, say for a million dollar portfolio, that's only $50,000.
So we're not talking like a lot of exposure, but that small exposure, because the volatility that you get with commodities can help you get just enough exposure to make it beneficial to hold.
If the Fed cuts rates, the high yields people have been enjoying will start to fall.
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