The # 1 Investment of the World's Wealthiest 1% And It's Now Available to You
This investment has handily beat the market during the best years of the bull market, and it's made people rich during the bear. Overall, its compounded total returns have more than doubled the returns of the Dow, S&P 500 and NASDAQ over the last 16 years.
It's been able to do this because it invests in different markets (stocks, bonds, commodities, domestic and foreign). And it uses sophisticated methods to play both sides of those markets (buying and selling). In professional terms, it's 'market neutral.'
But this special class of investment is not neutral on profits...
Recently, in a rare press write-up, Worth Magazine took a look at the performance of one of these investments during a seven-year period covering the recent bull and bear markets, and said:
"Remarkably, its trading has demonstrated a positive correlation to the S&P 500 when the index rises and a negative correlation when the index falls."
Translation:
When stocks go up, this investment goes up.
When stocks go down, this investment goes up...
This investment class is unknown to most investors. Yet one of the leaders in the category has not only trounced the major indexes over the last 16 years... it has posted compounded annual returns as high as 83% and 195% in a single year.
Why Hasn't Your Broker Told You About
The Best Performing Investments of All Time?
Three years ago, if you asked anyone what the best place to make money was, 99% chance he would have said stocks. Even in the bull market, he would have been wrong.
Ask anyone today, and the chances are maybe 50% they'll say stocks and 50% they'll say something like bonds or real estate. They'd be wrong again.
The best investment class by far over the last 30 years is an investment class most people don't even know exists. They're called Commodity Trading Advisors, or "CTAs."
CTAs are a very unique breed of hedge fund which typically go long and short the market at the same time. They aim to limit risk, while profiting from rising and falling sectors of the market at the same time.
CTAs specialize in trading futures and options markets with high leverage. That means they invest in commodity 'futures' (agreements to buy or sell a particular commodity at a certain price by a certain date.) CTAs can invest in futures on everything from oil and gold and other metals to agricultural commodities, currencies, and stock market indexes and bond indexes.
Since each of these markets go through bull or bear phases at different times, CTAs have the flexibility to buy into rising trends and sell falling ones. As a result, they've trounced the performance of stocks even after the greatest equity bull market of all time.
Stock-Crushing Returns
Since 1980, CTAs as a group have posted 2,150% returns, according to the University of Massachusetts's Center for the Study of International Securities and Derivatives. But they really tend to earn their keep in your portfolio when traditional investments - like stocks and bonds - sink.
Since 2000, for instance, CTAs have climbed 43% even while the S&P 500 and NASDAQ are down 17% to 46% in that time.
