Most commodity ETFs implement futures-based strategies, offering exposure to everything from corn to gold to tin by investing in contracts that generally exhibit very high correlations to movements in ...

Most commodity ETFs are in a downtrend. The (small) iShares Commodity Curve Carry Strategy ETF is an exception. It’s an optimized commodity ETF that focuses on commodities with the greatest degree of ...

With the oil market futures curve in backwardation and likely to remain so for the foreseeable future, the topic of roll yield has been top-of-mind for many commodity investors. Yet we often hear ...

Before exchange traded funds (ETFs) covered the commodities space, a person had to either be part of a large institution or have an account in the commodities pits to gain exposure to price movements ...

If you've been paying attention to Commodity ETF news recently you are aware that there has been much discussion over "contango," which is a situation in which the future months contract prices for a ...

The article was published in the August issue of Morningstar ETFInvestor. Download a complimentary copy of ETFInvestor here. The holy grail of portfolio diversification: an asset class that provides ...

Investors continue to search for alpha in one of the most challenging environments in nearly a decade. Due in part to over two decades of massive debt accumulation, which ended in a housing bubble and ...

Strategies that eschew traditional market-cap weighting are the current trend in exchange-traded funds. Funds that use fundamental indexing or other rules-based weighting methodologies are popping up ...

A closer look at the people who may succeed Jerome Powell as the next Federal Reserve chair reveals a list of candidates with both pros and cons. Nvidia is the only member of the "Magnificent Seven" ...

Consumers and investors are discovering that Trump may no longer care how much economic pain he causes. Simply picking the highest yielding stocks off a list, like the companies in the S&P 500 index, ...