Best Commodity ETFs for 2012

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China, India, and South America are growing rapidly. A great way to take advantage of that growth without the risk to stocks is to invest in commodities. Specifically agriculture commodities. That’s because a growing population will need more grain, corn, sugar, and other agriculture related commodities.

When people think of commodities they think of futures. But futures are risky. A MUCH less risky way to invest in commodities are through ETFs. ETFs are exchange traded funds and they trade like stocks. Check out the ETFs below for your portfolio.

FUD – UBS E-Tracs CMCI Food Total Return ETN. The CMCI Food TR measures the collateralized returns from a basket of 11 futures contracts from the agricultural and livestock sectors. The commodity futures contracts are diversified across three constant maturities from three months up to one year. Expense Ratio: 0.65% Market Cap: $42 M Top Holdings: Soybeans, Sugar #11, Corn, SRW Wheat, Live Cattle, Soybean Oil, Sugar #5, Live Hogs, Soybean Meal, Coffee, Cocoa.

BAL – iPath Dow Jones-AIG Cotton Total Return Sub-index ETN. A single-commodity sub-index currently consisting of one futures contract on the commodity of cotton. Expense Ratio: 0.75% Market Cap: $44 M. Top Holdings: Cotton.

SGG – iPath Dow Jones-AIG Sugar Total Return Sub-index. A single-commodity sub-index currently consisting of one futures contract on the commodity of sugar. Expense Ratio: 0.75% Market Cap: $42 M. Top Holdings: Sugar.

WEET – iPath Pure Beta Grains. The index is comprised of a basket of exchange traded futures contracts, and uses an allocation methodology designed to mitigate the effects of certain distortions in the commodity markets on such returns. Expense Ratio: 0.75% Market Cap: $2 M Top Holdings: Soybeans, Corn, Wheat, Soybean Oil, Soybean Meal, Kansas Wheat.

CAFE – iPath Pure Beta Coffee. The Index is comprised of a single exchange traded futures contract, except during the roll period when the Index may be comprised of two futures contracts. Expense Ratio: 0.75% Market Cap: $2 M Top Holdings: Coffee.

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