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 pool Commodity pool A commodity pool is an investment structure where many individual investors combine their moneys and trade in futures contracts as a single entity in order to gain leverage. They are analogous to mutual funds wherein a fund is similarly set up expressly for trading in equity, except that mutual funds are open to public subscription whereas commodity pools and hedge funds are private. Commodity pools are also called "managed futures funds". The name "commodity pool" is a National Futures Association (NFA) legal term. In the United States, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the NFA, as opposed