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As a follow-up to our blog post from July 27, 2016 entitled The Perils of Investing In Leveraged Funds, we wanted to illustrate what has happened with two popular leveraged commodities ETFs. Continue reading “The Perils of Investing in Leveraged ETFs — Illustrated”
In the investing world, returns are always in demand, but the path by which investors pursue these returns can be very detrimental to a portfolio’s health. Leveraged funds, which have been around for two decades now, seek to beat the market returns of their unleveraged, index-tracking counterparts by essentially increasing the stakes of the bet through the use of derivative instruments. The idea seems straightforward, but the results are not always what investors expect them to be.
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