Hedge-Fund Investors Pour Into Oil as Firms Predict Surge to $80
- Commodity funds attracting inflows at fastest pace since 2016
- Global economy, geopolitics are underpinning oil-price surge
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Hedge funds investing in oil are luring capital at the fastest pace in more than a year.
With crude climbing to levels not seen since 2014, commodity funds have recovered the client outflows they suffered last year. And if firms such as Westbeck Capital Management and Commodities World Capital are correct about prices soon exceeding $80 a barrel from about $68 currently, then the jump in allocations may just the beginning.