Jim Rogers spotted the secular bull market for commodities way back in the 1990s. In 1996, he created the Rogers International Commodity Index.
Subsequently, he worked on ways to make that index investable.
Since 1998, the index has returned 290 percent through the end of 2010. This compares to the 10 percent return of the S&P 500 Index during the same period.
Rogers expects commodities to continue to rally ferociously for the long term as paper assets become more worthless and demand (for certain commodities) picks up worldwide.
Back in the 1990s, on the heels of a long bear market for commodities, it was difficult to make a bullish case for them. In fact, few people did.
It is therefore highly impressive that Rogers pretty much called the bottom of a market that went on to rally tremendously for the next decade and more.
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