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Article: New Vanderbilt Research Finds More Intervention Is a Bad Idea for Commodity Index Funds and Futures Markets.(Report)
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- Investment Weekly News
- Article date:
- November 7, 2009
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, long known for its "hands-off" regulatory policy, appears to be changing course toward greater intervention in markets. New research by professors at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management finds when it comes to index investors, more intervention is a mistake.
Hans Stoll, the Anne Marie and Thomas Walker Jr. Professor of Finance and co-director of the Financial Markets Research Center at Vanderbilt, and Robert Whaley, the Valere Blair Potter Professor of Management in Finance and co-director of the Financial Markets Research Center are the authors of a new study, "Commodity Index Investing and Commodity Futures ...