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To: JustInTime who wrote (17582)	1/30/2003 11:41:38 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 206334

Playing commodities - one way is to buy the producers, like miners, E&P, etc. Oppenhiemer has a mutual fund which is tied to a commodity index. Will try to find the name and post it. Thier index is heavily weighted to energy. Pimco has a new fund which will invest in TIPS, the Treasury inflation protected bonds, and track the Dow Jones COmmodity index. This is much less weighted to energy. It's call Strategic Real. Not available for retail yet. Many of us on this thread are already too heavy in energy... Other way is to invest in general funds for commodity producing nations, like Canada and especially Austrailia. This does tend to lean towards metal and energy. There are commodites trading accounts, but they have VERY mixed results. The record of that asset category is very poor, long term returns for the group are close to zereo.