Commodities represent a broad basket of commodities futures contracts including things like precious metals, agricultural products, and oil.
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Global Commodities
ETFs in the United States
| Ticker | Provider | Index | Expense Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GSG | iShares | S&P GSCI | 0.75 | |
ISIN: US46428R1077; Dividends: —; Notes: — | ||||
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Notes Definitions
- +SCB — Total market fund that includes small caps (85% LCB + 15% SCB)
- +EM — Global fund that includes emerging markets (~90% DEV + 10% EM)
- -CAN — Excludes Canada (or other specified country normally in the index)
- Acc — Accumulating
- Dist — Distributing
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Alternatives
Other options when no commodities funds are available
- Gold — Gold bullion is a commodity that is highly traded with lots of inexpensive fund options.
Definition
The Portfolio Charts commodities data tracks a broad basket of global commodities including things like precious metals, agricultural products, and oil. It utilizes futures contracts to gain exposure to the overall market for various hard goods.
Commodities are nice options for investors looking for a way to diversify away from corporate stocks and financial bonds. A commodities fund is the simplest way to gain access to a wide variety of real assets.
Performance
Since 1970, an investor in the United States holding global commodities earned an average 5.2% real return, with a baseline CAGR of -4.4% over 15 years. Its worst peak-to-trough loss was 79%, and the longest a new investment spent below water was under 47 years.
Global Commodity Performance
| # | Metric | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| 5.2% | Average return | Mean annual return after inflation |
| -4.4% | Baseline real return (15 years) | What 15-year stretches returned in the weaker outcomes |
| 79% | Deepest drawdown | Worst peak-to-trough loss after inflation |
| 47 years | Longest drawdown | Longest a new investment stayed below what you put in |
| 22.2% | Volatility (standard deviation) | Year-to-year variation in returns |
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Commodity Data for All Markets and Home Countries
Everything this page knows about commodities, as plain text for readers and assistants that cannot use the controls above: first the performance stats for every market and home country, then every index fund on this page by market and home country. The blocks above show one market and one home country at a time; these tables show all of them.
To open this page on a specific market and home country, link readers to it with ?market=MARKET&home=COUNTRY added to the URL, using the codes shown in parentheses — market codes on the rows of the stats tables and in the Market column of the fund tables, home country codes on the stats tables' headings and in the Home countries column of the fund tables (e.g. ?market=glo&home=deu). Either parameter may be omitted; the defaults are the United States for both. The asset itself is fixed by the page, so ?pk= has no effect here. More in the Guide for AI Assistants.
Commodity Performance by Market and Home Country
Commodities in all 1 market the data tracks, for all 12 home countries, 1970–2025. Each row is one market; each table is one home country.
United States (usa)
| Market | Average | Baseline | Deepest | Longest | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global (glo) | 5.2% | -4.4% | 79% | 47 years | 22.2% |
Australia (aus)
| Market | Average | Baseline | Deepest | Longest | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global (glo) | 4.9% | -5.7% | 80% | 47 years | 21.7% |
Canada (can)
| Market | Average | Baseline | Deepest | Longest | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global (glo) | 5.3% | -4.8% | 74% | 42 years | 20.6% |
France (fra)
| Market | Average | Baseline | Deepest | Longest | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global (glo) | 5.4% | -4.2% | 76% | 47 years | 23.7% |
Germany (deu)
| Market | Average | Baseline | Deepest | Longest | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global (glo) | 5.1% | -4.5% | 76% | 47 years | 23.5% |
Italy (ita)
| Market | Average | Baseline | Deepest | Longest | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global (glo) | 5.4% | -4.6% | 76% | 47 years | 23.4% |
Japan (jpn)
| Market | Average | Baseline | Deepest | Longest | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global (glo) | 6.0% | -3.0% | 77% | 48 years | 26.2% |
Netherlands (nld)
| Market | Average | Baseline | Deepest | Longest | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global (glo) | 4.9% | -4.7% | 77% | 47 years | 23.7% |
Spain (esp)
| Market | Average | Baseline | Deepest | Longest | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global (glo) | 4.4% | -4.5% | 76% | 48 years | 22.5% |
Sweden (swe)
| Market | Average | Baseline | Deepest | Longest | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global (glo) | 6.0% | -3.6% | 74% | 32 years | 23.6% |
Switzerland (che)
| Market | Average | Baseline | Deepest | Longest | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global (glo) | 4.3% | -5.0% | 80% | 49 years | 24.4% |
United Kingdom (gbr)
| Market | Average | Baseline | Deepest | Longest | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global (glo) | 5.1% | -3.4% | 72% | 48 years | 23.5% |
Commodity Index Funds by Market and Home Country
Every commodity index fund on this page: 9 fund listings across 1 market, available to investors in 10 home countries. Each table is one target market (the region the fund invests in); each row is one fund, listed once with every home country it is sold in.
Home country codes: Australia (aus), France (fra), Germany (deu), Italy (ita), Japan (jpn), Netherlands (nld), Spain (esp), Switzerland (che), United Kingdom (gbr), United States (usa).
Global Commodities (glo)
| Market | ISIN | Tickers | Provider | Index | Expense Ratio | Dividends | Notes | Home countries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| glo | IE00BF0BCP69 | BCOM, BCOG, ETLF | Legal & General | BBG Commodity | 0.15 | Accumulating | — | fra, deu, ita, nld, esp, che, gbr |
| glo | IE00BD6FTQ80 | CMOD, CMOP | Invesco | BBG Commodity | 0.19 | Accumulating | — | fra, deu, ita, nld, esp, gbr |
| glo | IE00BDFL4P12 | ICOM, COMM, SXRS | iShares | BBG Commodity | 0.19 | Accumulating | — | fra, deu, ita, nld, esp, che, gbr |
| glo | IE00B5B3W843 | DCUSAS, DCUSAz | UBS | BBG Commodity | 0.19 | Accumulating | — | fra, deu, nld, esp, che, gbr |
| glo | IE00BKY4W127 | PCOM, COMX | WisdomTree | BBG Commodity | 0.19 | Accumulating | — | fra, deu, ita, nld, esp, che, gbr |
| glo | DE000A0H0728 | EXXY, 0MNN, CMSE, EXXYm | iShares | BBG Commodity | 0.46 | Accumulating | — | fra, deu, ita, nld, esp, che, gbr |
| glo | GB00B15KY989 | AIGC, 1684, AGCP, AGCPl, AIGC.GB, AIGC1, AIGCl, AIGCm, AIGCP, OD7V | WisdomTree | BBG Commodity | 0.49 | Accumulating | — | fra, deu, ita, jpn, nld, esp, gbr |
| glo | AU0000272619 | BCOM | Global X | BBG Commodity Index ER 3m Fwd | 0.66 | Distributing | — | aus |
| glo | US46428R1077 | GSG | iShares | S&P GSCI | 0.75 | — | — | usa |