{"id":3644,"date":"2005-11-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"focus-commodity-futures-interest-rising-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2005\/focus-commodity-futures-interest-rising-in-australia.html","title":{"rendered":"Commodity Futures Interest Rising In Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  SYDNEY (Dow Jones)&#8211;Slow on the uptake, Australian investors are starting to warm to commodities in a sign the likes of metals, crops and energy are becoming a mainstream asset class.<\/p>\n<p>  Fund managers in the country report an uptick in interest in recent months from high-end retail investors and pension funds to gain direct exposure to commodity futures, until now the almost sole  domain of large U.S. hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>  Driving interest is the notion commodity prices are likely to stay stronger for longer and that natural resources offer a natural hedge against both the cost of living and risk in traditional asset  classes such as equities.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/sg.biz.yahoo.com\/051128\/15\/3wv6a.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY (Dow Jones)&#8211;Slow on the uptake, Australian investors are starting to warm to commodities in a sign the likes of metals, crops and energy are becoming a mainstream asset class. Fund managers in the country report an uptick in interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}