SS&C ALPS Advisors Building Blocks - Two Minute Tuesday - Are Rate Hikes the End of the Commodity Run?

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The Bloomberg Commodity Index (Total Return) (BCOM) is the primary prospectus benchmark for the ALPS | CoreCommodity Management CompleteCommodities Strategy Fund (the Fund). For standardized performance of the Fund, please click here.

Bloomberg Commodity Index: an unmanaged index used as a measurement of change in commodity market conditions based on the performance of a basket of different commodities.

Bull Market: a financial market in which prices are trending upward or are expected to trend upward. Bull Run: an extended bull market.

Federal Funds Target Rate (FFR, upper limit): the upper bound of the Federal Funds Target Rate range, which is the interest rate range in which the Federal Reserve suggests banks lend overnight reserves to each other.

Hawkish: in relation to monetary policy, describes a more restrictive stance (when the Federal Reserve is hiking or intends to hike interest rates).

Personal Consumption Expenditures Index (PCE): a broad measure of inflation similar to the Consumer Price Index and created by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Real rates are approximated as the yield on the 10-year Treasury minus the year-over-year change in the Personal Consumption Expenditures Index (PCE).

ALPS Advisors, Inc. is the investment adviser to the Fund and CoreCommodity Management, LLC is the investment sub-adviser to the Fund. ALPS Portfolio Solutions Distributor, Inc. is not affiliated with CoreCommodity Management, LLC. ALPS Advisors, Inc. is affiliated with ALPS Portfolio Solutions Distributor, Inc.

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