Performance of Commodity ETFs – worse than mutual funds?
There has been a lot of chatter about the performance of commodity based Exchanged Traded Funds (ETFs)… Commodity ETFs surged in popularity circa 2006 making commodities a de facto asset class for the retail investor who was deprived of the higher returns… ETFs allowed retail investors to easily participate in the commodities boom-bust-boom cycle of 2007-2009…
Here is a roundup of articles on commodity ETFs
ETFs Imperil Commodity Investors
The following are links to Canadian ETFs listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange
And here is a table of Commodity ETFs in Canada covering Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Silver & Gold. The ones in bold are not leveraged, all other ETFs are leveraged…
There are plenty of ETFs that track equity indexes comprised of commodity stocks and will be a topic for another time
| Name | Ticker | Type | QMV (C$) 30-June-2010 |
| Claymore Gold Bullion ETF | CGL | Commodity | 516751697.2 |
| Claymore Natural Gas Commodity ETF | GAS | Commodity | 177625000 |
| Horizons BetaPro COMEX Silver ETF | HUZ | Commodity | 6360000 |
| Horizons BetaPro NYMEX Crude Oil Inverse ETF | HIO | Commodity | 5560050 |
| Horizons BetaPro NYMEX Long Crude Oil/Short Natural Gas Spread ETF | HON | Commodity | 7638000 |
| Horizons BetaPro NYMEX Long Natural Gas/Short Crude Oil Spread ETF | HNO | Commodity | 12361500 |
| Horizons BetaPro Winter-Term NYMEX Crude Oil ETF | HUC | Commodity | 5070000 |
| Horizons BetaPro Winter-Term NYMEX Natural Gas ETF | HUN | Commodity | 3475000 |
| Horizons BetaPro Comex Copper Bear Plus ETF | HKD | Commodity Leveraged |
5216650 |
| Horizons BetaPro Comex Copper Bull Plus ETF | HKU | Commodity Leveraged |
4805075 |
| Horizons BetaPro COMEX Gold Bullion Bear Plus ETF | HBD | Commodity Leveraged |
4595500 |
| Horizons BetaPro COMEX Gold Bullion Bull Plus ETF | HBU | Commodity Leveraged |
75926900 |
| Horizons BetaPro COMEX Silver Bear Plus ETF | HZD | Commodity Leveraged |
3024000 |
| Horizons BetaPro COMEX Silver Bull Plus ETF | HZU | Commodity Leveraged |
10230500 |
| Horizons BetaPro NYMEX Crude Oil Bear Plus ETF | HOD | Commodity Leveraged |
35130200 |
| Horizons BetaPro NYMEX Crude Oil Bull Plus ETF | HOU | Commodity Leveraged |
592141200 |
| Horizons BetaPro NYMEX Natural Gas Bear Plus ETF | HND | Commodity Leveraged |
43544800 |
| Horizons BetaPro NYMEX Natural Gas Bull Plus ETF | HNU | Commodity Leveraged |
539477400 |
