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We expect commodities to underperform US equities

Although we expect oil prices to rise a bit further this year, we doubt that we are in the early phase of a new “super cycle” in commodities. In fact, we project that the returns from commodities will lag those from US equities considerably over the next decade, as they have done for most of the past fifty years.

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