The Handbook of Inflation Hedging Investments

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McGraw Hill Professional, Dec 30, 2005 - Business & Economics - 320 pages
  • Authoritative chapters written by executives at Goldman Sachs, PIMCO, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and others
  • Covers key assets that protect against inflation--real estate, commodities, precious metals, inflation-linked bonds, CPI futures, and timber
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Why Worry About Inflation?
1
Chapter 2 InflationLinked Bonds
9
Portfolio Construction and Opportunities for Active Management
41
Chapter 4 ExchangeTraded Inflation Futures
65
Chapter 5 Commodity Indexes for Real Return
105
Chapter 6 CommoditiesActive Strategies for Enhanced Return
127
Chapter 7 Gold and Inflation
159
Overview of Alternative Vehicles
179
Chapter 9 Implementing a Real Estate Allocation
203
The Natural Alternative
231
Chapter 11 Investing in Energy
247
Chapter 12 Alternative Asset Allocation for Real Return
265
Chapter 13 The Role of Real Return Assets in a Portfolio
283
Index
297
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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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