Castlestone Management - Agriculture: helping portfolios grow

The excellent returns available from investing in agriculture have been grabbing headlines recently, but this asset class has been quietly outperforming for many years. Since the start of 2002, agricultural commodities have performed better than UK, European or US stocks*. In 2007 alone, they rose by 24%. In today's turbulent economic times, many investors are looking to revitalise their portfolios with better-performing alternative assets, and agriculture makes an attractive candidate. Investing in a fund that tracks an index such as the AIG Agricultural Commodities Index would have pr...