Traduction de «Investissement dans un indice de matières premières » (Français → Anglais) :

(ii)options on a commodity or group or index of commodities.

(d)provide investment services exclusively in commodities, emission allowances and/or derivatives thereof for the sole purpose of hedging the commercial risks of their clients, where those clients are exclusively local electricity undertakings as defined in Article 2(35) of Directive 2009/72/EC and/or natural gas undertakings as defined in Article 2(1) of Directive 2009/73/EC, and provided that those clients jointly hold 100 % of the capital or of the voting rights of those persons, exercise joint control and are exempt under point (j) of Article 2(1) of this Directive if they carry out those investment services themselves; or

(i) swaps, options, futures or forward agreements relating to interest rates; spot or other foreign exchange, precious metals or commodity agreements; currency; an equity index or equity; a debt index or debt; commodity indexes or commodities; weather; emissions or inflation,

swaps and options relating to interest rates; spot or other foreign exchange agreements; currency; an equity index or equity; a debt index or debt; commodity indexes or commodities; weather; emissions or inflation;

contracts for the purchase, sale or loan of a commodity or group or index of commodities for future delivery;

As the United Nations Conference for Development and Trade (UNCTAD) has recently pointed out, "investments in commodities became a common part of a larger investor portfolio allocation which coincides with a significant increase of assets under management of commodity indexes (.) Consequently, the volumes of exchange-traded derivatives on commodity markets are now 20 to 30 times greater than physical production".