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Commodity Exchange Traded Funds |
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In November of 2004, a new type of exchange-traded fund (ETF) was launched. It was called StreetTracks Gold Shares (GLD) and it was the first of its kind: an ETF that tracked a commodity.
Commodity Exchange Traded Funds, also known as exchange-traded commodities (ETCs), track a specific commodity or a general commodity index, such as:
- streetTRACKS Gold Shares
- Gold exchange-traded funds
- Silver by iShares
- Petroleum by ETF Securities
- DBC Fund tracking the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index - Optimized Yield (DBLCI-OY) by Deutsche Bank
- Lyxor ETF Commodities CRB tracking the Reuters Jefferies CRB Index by Lyxor Asset Management
- EasyETF GSCI tracking the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index by Axa Investment Managers and BNP Paribas
Since September 2006, numerous ETFs have been available on the London Stock Exchange. ETCs invest in real commodities (via future contracts or storing gold bars, for example) and not in commodity producing companies, such as mining companies, though of course, mining-company ETFs also exist.
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