Investing via the ETP ‘toolkit'

ETFs

Christopher Aldous, chief executive of Evercore Pan-Asset, explains how ETPs and ETFs offer the chance to invest in alternative assets cheaply and simply.

‘Supercycle’ was a word which slipped easily off the tongue, both before the credit crunch and during China’s great reflationary boom in 2009. You had to have a contrarian streak to doubt growing populations and consumer demand would drive commodity prices inexorably higher. All that changed with the global economic slowdown, and investors now question whether they need to own alternative assets such as commodities after all. The good news is, it is not only commodities which exchange-traded funds and products (ETFs and ETPs) have brought to the investment party. Over the past five years...