Albany Times Union: You may have never heard of palm oil -- let alone thought about the role it played in your investment portfolio. But palm oil is fast becoming a ubiquitous ingredient, already present in half the goods we buy, from toothpaste to body wash, lipstick to detergent, cooking oil to ice cream and coffee to chocolate.
Because it is free of trans fats, inexpensive and uses less acreage to grow than some alternatives, demand for palm oil has increased dramatically in the last decade and with it, so have...