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Inflation Hedging in the Long Run: Practical Perspectives from Seven Centuries of Commodity Prices

Adam Zaremba, Jan J. Szczygielski, Zaghum Umar and Mateusz Mikutowski
The Journal of Alternative Investments Summer 2021, 24 (1) 119-134; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jai.2021.1.136
Adam Zaremba
is an associate professor of finance at Montpellier Business School in France and Poznan University of Economics and Business in Poland
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Jan J. Szczygielski
is an assistant professor of finance at Kozminski University in Warsaw, Poland, and an extraordinary lecturer at the University of Pretoria in Pretoria, South Africa
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Zaghum Umar
is an associate professor of finance in the College of Business at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates
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Mateusz Mikutowski
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Abstract

One promise of commodity investments is that they offer a long run hedge against inflation. But do they? The authors undertake a comprehensive investigation of commodities’ inflation-hedging ability across 50 commodities for 80 countries and seven centuries of data. They confirm that commodities have offered protection against inflation throughout history, especially over long, multiyear periods. Nonetheless, hedging capacity has varied remarkably—both over time and across geographical regions. Following many centuries of agricultural commodity primacy, energy commodities have taken the lead only recently. They recommend that investors should continue to include commodities in their portfolios to protect against inflation. However, not all commodity types offer the same protection level, which differs over time and across countries and geographies.

TOPICS: Commodities, global, performance measurement, financial crises and financial market history

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  • ▪ The authors examine the inflation-hedging ability of commodities using data from seven centuries.

  • ▪ Commodities offer protection against inflation, although hedging capacity varies over time and between countries.

  • ▪ Following many centuries of the primacy of agricultural commodities, energy commodities have taken the lead recently.

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Adam Zaremba, Jan J. Szczygielski, Zaghum Umar, Mateusz Mikutowski
The Journal of Alternative Investments Jun 2021, 24 (1) 119-134; DOI: 10.3905/jai.2021.1.136

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Adam Zaremba, Jan J. Szczygielski, Zaghum Umar, Mateusz Mikutowski
The Journal of Alternative Investments Jun 2021, 24 (1) 119-134; DOI: 10.3905/jai.2021.1.136
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