Gary Gorton

  • Commodities Help Diversify Portfolios

    By J. Gibson Watson III, Envestnet | Prima  |  February 1, 2010

    Broad-based exposure to a basket of commodities can provide meaningful diversification to a portfolio even during turbulent markets.

  • Commodity Choice

    By Robert N. Gordon  |  December 1, 2006

    Commodities may be the oldest form of wealth, and recent academic work has concluded that over long periods of time, an investment in commodities has...

  • Mixed Messages

    By James Picerno  |  July 1, 2006

    Modern portfolio theory says correlations matter, but there's no consensus about what that means for day-to-day money management. If there's debate about how to exploit correlation...