When you portfolio is full with shares and currency, you may consider other investment to diverse it. Diversity of your portfolio will give you better condition when other investment is fall down. We will never know what will be happen tomorrow, so it is better to prepare the worst. One great opportunity to diversity your portfolio is investing your money in commodity.
There are a lot of commodities that can be use as investment and it grouped by hard commodity and soft commodity. Hard commodity is something you get through mining process like metal, while soft commodity is something that grown on land like coffee, sugar, cocoa, soybeans, wheat, corn and fruit
The development of massive industry has increase the commodity consumption and demand. On the other hand, commodity supply is limited. The high demand and limited supply is the reason for rising price of commodity.
Each commodity has different market for investment. In the world there are various commodity exchanges that spread out in several countries across the world. London Metal Exchange is specialize at metal exchange like aluminum, copper, tins, zinc, lead, cobalt etc. The other example is Kansas City Board of Trade that located at Kansas City of United State is specializing at red winter wheat.