So much for safe, steady as she goes, buy and hold long term investment of your nest egg. Do you know your retirement funds may be contributing to the Oil Price bubble? Your trusted wealth managers may be telling you to have a conservative balance portfolio in retirement whilst they speculate in oil with your money.

“A pension fund is supposed to be investing money in secure, stable investments for the benefit of the people whose money they are investing,” said Dan Lippe, an energy analyst at Houston-based Petral Consulting Inc. Retirement Funds Plowing Cash into Oil

I’m really not sure of the ethics of this. It is supposedly well intentioned and aimed at protecting your nest egg to some degree against inflation and the loss in value of the US dollar. However I am more of the view they were chasing their bonuses on what looks like a sure thing riding the oil trend, just like the housing bubble. They get their bonuses every quarter in real cash. They cannot be trusted.

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