Ride out the recession with these three commodities

Commodities tend to outperform when stocks are doing badly, but some commodity sectors are more immune to economic recession than others. Nik Bienkowski picks the three which look most robust.

Every week, a professional investor tells MoneyWeek where he'd put his money now. This week: Nik Bienkowski, head of research, ETF Securities

Investors have been demanding exposure to alternative assets for several years now for various reasons. Firstly, equities underperformed for some time after the tech bubble popped in 2000. Secondly, studies have shown that the long-term risk/return characteristics of alternative assets are similar to those of equities. Thirdly, alternative assets have a low or negative correlation with equities (in other words, they don't move in tandem with them) and so are a good way to diversify a portfolio.

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