Christopher Burton is a director of Credit Suisse. He is co-lead portfolio manager for the Total Commodity Return strategy responsible for analysing and implementing hedging strategies, indexing strategies and excess return strategies. Prior to joining Credit Suisse in 2005 Burton served as an analyst and derivatives strategist with Putnam Investments. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and has achieved Financial Risk Manager® Certification through the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).

According to Christopher Burton and Andrew Karsh commodities offer significant diversification opportunities which may reduce overall portfolio risk and improve returns. Commodities pay no interest and offer investors no share of any future profits ... Read more