GLOBAL - Soaring global food prices and the search for diversification against equity and fixed interest market downturns have prompted investors to turn their attention to commodities as a separate asset class, a report by institutional fund manager QIC has shown.
The QIC Red Paper on Rising Food Prices found that while prices for energy, metal, bulk resources and other commodities had hit record highs in recent months, food prices had risen more than 80% si...
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