WisdomTree Brent Crude Oil
The brent crude oil ETC issued by WisdomTree gives you broad exposure to brent crude oil as a commodity. It tracks the well-respected Bloomberg Brent Crude Subindex, which has been around since 2012.1 Again, by gaining its exposure through an established oil index (which provides the collateral yield) you won’t have to take ownership of actual barrels of oil.
This ETC has experienced no small amount of volatility, due largely to the fluctuations in oil price caused by the Russo-Ukrainian War. Massive gains were made in July and August 2022, due to the climbing oil price, with somewhat less volatility in the months after.
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Invesco Physical Gold ETC
The Invesco Physical Gold ETC is an exchange traded commodity that provides exposure to the spot price of the precious metal through certificates collateralised in gold bullion.2 Through this, the ETC tracks the day-to-day gains or losses in actual gold, in order to provide you with the truest broad exposure to the precious metal possible, without having to take ownership of any physical gold.
Gold has been through several ups and downs in recent years, but the Invesco ETC has provided stable returns for the bulk of it, including several upswings in volatile time periods when most asset classes’ returns were depressed.
WisdomTree Wheat ETC
Another one from WisdomTree, this ETC enables broad exposure to the spot price of the soft commodity. The way it does this is by tracking the Bloomberg Wheat Subindex plus a collateral return. The WisdomTree Wheat ETC is backed by contracts marked to market daily, which gives it a day-to-day correlation to the spot price of physical wheat as a commodity.3
Another one with significant volatility, Russia’s early 2022 invasion of the Ukraine sent this ETC’s wheat price skyrocketing in February to May 2022. It’s also experienced more fluctuations, both downwards and upward, since then.