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A commodity index fund is a fund whose assets are invested in financial instruments based on or linked to a commodity price index. In just about every case the index is in fact a commodity futures index. == Funds that track indexes == You cannot invest in an index, but you can invest in a fund. A Commodity Index Fund is a fund which either buys and sells futures to replicate the performance of the index, or sometimes enters into swaps with investment banks who themselves then trade the futures. The biggest and best known such fund is the Pimco Real Return Strategy Fund. There are many other funds, such as: *Oppenheimer〔 *iShares S&P GSCI Commodity Indexes Fund〔 *Barclays〔 *JP Morgan (1994)〔 These are very different from, and should not be confused with, commodity funds that hold real assets (oil refineries, farms, forests etc.) such as: *Chase Physical Commodity Index〔 *Bear Stearns〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Commodity index fund」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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