Kijani Commodity Fund Kijani Commodity Fund The Kijani Commodity Fund is the largest cell within Brighton SPC, a Cayman Islands based fund. The fund had positive returns for investors in 49 of the 51 months it was trading, which was attributed to strategies such as commodity trading arbitrage. It was seized by Cayman authorities for an inability to verify its assets in June 2015. Kijani mean "green" in Swahili and was described as "the commodity equivalent of fair trade coffee" in 2011. The fund marketed to individual investors in Asia and the Middle East, investing in gold, oil and timber. Early on, it
Commodity price index the index. The first such index was the CRB ("Commodity Research Bureau") Index, which began in 1958. Due to its construction it was not useful as an investment index. The first practically investable commodity futures index was the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index, created in 1991 and known as the "GSCI". The next was the Dow Jones AIG Commodity Index. It differed from the GSCI primarily in the weights allocated to each commodity. The DJ AIG had mechanisms to periodically limit the weight of any one commodity and to remove commodities whose weights became too small. After AIG's financial problems in