Cocktail Investing

  In this week’s program Tematica’s cocktail mixologists, Chris Versace and Lenore Hawkins, speak with Sal Gilbertie, President, Chief Investment Office and co-founder of Teucrium Trading, who explains how individual investors can invest in agricultural commodities such as wheat, corn, soybeans and sugar through Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and why these types of investing vehicles are something to consider. Following the theory of buy-what-you-know, investing in agricultural products makes sense given the exposure we all have on a daily basis. Traditionally trading commodities has only been feasible with futures, which introduces a level of complexity that many investors — professional and individual — understandably opt to avoid. However, agricultural commodities have unique attributes that we find appealing, for example, they have historically had very low correlation with the equity markets, in particular, grain commodities, which tend to move counter-cyclical to their related equities and can help stabil