Ah, Everyone Had a Commodity Hedge Fund That Year

By Paul Kedrosky · Wednesday, May 14, 2008 ·

There is impressive growth underway in the number and assets of commodity hedge funds worldwide. Check the following graph of the number of such funds extant.

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Doing the math, the above works out to roughly a 50% compound growth rate in the number of commodity funds per year. For those of you as fond as I am of recreational extrapolation, that means everyone on the planet will be running a commodity hedge by the year 2050. Should be great.

[Source: Milken/Tellus/Cole]