Commodity market Commodity market A commodity market is a market that trades in primary economic sector rather than manufactured products. Soft commodities are agricultural products such as wheat, coffee, cocoa, fruit and sugar. Hard commodities are mined, such as gold and oil. Investors access about 50 major commodity markets worldwide with purely financial transactions increasingly outnumbering physical trades in which goods are delivered. Futures contracts are the oldest way of investing in commodities. Futures are secured by physical assets. Commodity markets can include physical trading and derivatives trading using spot prices, forwards, futures, and options on futures. Farmers have used a simple
Kijani Commodity Fund CIMA announced that Brighton SPC had been placed in liquidation by PricewaterhouseCoopers. 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