Discover How Top Investors Control Inflation in Portfolios of Every Type
For average Americans over the past two-plus decades, inflation hasn't been viewed as a
serious problem. What most don't realize is that, over that seemingly innocent period, the
purchasing power of their money has been cut by almost half.
As a professional money manager or institutional investor, you know inflation is a
legitimate concern that must be adequately addressed to protect long-term performance. The
Handbook of Inflation Hedging Investments provides you with innovative techniques and
strategies for building inflation-protection into virtually any diversified portfolio.
Articles written by executives at Barclays Capital, PIMCO, the Chicago Mercantile
Exchange, and other leading financial organizations reveal how money managers are actively
offsetting the effects of inflation. They introduce you to the features and uses of
numerous "real return" assets, including:
INFLATION-LINKED BONDS Strategies for creating and optimizing portfolios of
inflation-linked bonds, with new insights into the expanding corporate inflation-linked
bond and inflation derivatives markets
EXCHANGE-TRADED INFLATION FUTURES Current contract designs and products, including U.S.
CPI futures and potential European HICP futures
COMMODITIES AND COMMODITY INDEXES The role of actively managed commodity strategies
along with structural sources of potential return
GOLD The historic role of gold and trading strategies for vehicles including bullion,
gold-related stocks, exchange-traded funds, futures, options, and structured products
REAL ESTATE Primary ownership structures, with new investment ideas and strategies for
allocating among the four sectors of the real estate investment universe
TIMBERLAND Ways in which timber-land can produce exceptional returns, along with
practical advice for seam-lessly integrating it into an investment portfolio
ENERGY Relationships between investments in different commodities and select financial
benchmarks, with pros and cons of various energy-related alternatives
Author and editor Robert Greer, a premier global expert on using commodities to combat
inflation in a portfolio, discusses the importance of inflation hedging, which hedges work
best, what percentages should be allocated to real return investments and to each specific
investment, and more.
ROBERT GREER is the senior vice president and manager for real return
products for Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO). A global authority on
professional commodities investing, Greer has published his work in numerous industry
journals including Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Derivatives, Pensions and
Investments.
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302 pages