US - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) board has earmarked $500m for investments in commodities and announced it was considering creating a new natural resources/commodities asset class within the fund.
The $500m will be allocated to investments directly linked to prices of energy, metals, and agricultural products, as well as companies that produce and distribute such natural resource commodities...
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