LONDON (DAILY MAIL) -
Investors could unwittingly be gambling more than a third of their savings on risky commodities such as oil and copper, amid growing concerns that prices could fall.
The rally in the UK stock market since the peak of the credit crunch in 2008 has been fuelled to a large extent by the soaring price of shares in mining companies, much of it generated by demand from powerhouses such as China and India.
The rewards for those who have invested in specialist commodities funds over the longer term have been huge. If you had put £1,000 in BlackRock Gold & General ten years ago, you would have made an impressive £6,000 profit.....