Newest offering from VanEck’s Quantitative Investment Solutions team, PIT provides exposure to commodity futures across a wide range of sub-categories
VanEck announced the launch of the VanEck Commodity Strategy ETF, an actively managed ETF that seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation and attractive risk-adjusted returns by investing primarily in exchange-traded commodity futures contracts across five major sub-sectors: energy, precious metals, industrial metals, agriculture and livestock.
“We’re excited to be launching PIT to offer investors and advisors an actively managed commodity strategy seeking to maximize return within a risk-controlled framework. We look forward to further educating the marketplace about this strategy and the specific role PIT’s actively managed approach can play in a portfolio.”
PIT will be managed by David Schassler, Portfolio Manager and Head of Quantitative Investment Solutions at VanEck, and his team. He brings nearly 20 years of experience to this role.
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In the case of PIT, David and the management team employ a strategy that considers risk and return metrics of each commodity, while targeting opportunities along the futures curve in order to maximize the expected risk-adjusted returns. The Fund offers a tax reporting advantage relative to many other commodity investments as it does not produce a K-1 tax form.
“Commodity exposure can play a valuable role in a portfolio, both from a capital appreciation standpoint and as a hedging tool against inflation, which remains at historically elevated levels,” said Schassler. “We’re excited to be launching PIT to offer investors and advisors an actively managed commodity strategy seeking to maximize return within a risk-controlled framework. We look forward to further educating the marketplace about this strategy and the specific role PIT’s actively managed approach can play in a portfolio.”
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VanEck has been a pioneer in commodity investing since the firm launched the first U.S.-based gold equity strategy in 1968 and further asserted its leadership in 1994, when it was among the first to provide investors with an actively managed portfolio of diversified natural resource equities.
PIT joins a lineup of asset allocation solutions from VanEck that also includes the recently launched VanEck Dynamic High Income ETF (INC), VanEck Inflation Allocation ETF (RAAX), VanEck Muni Allocation ETF (MAAX) and VanEck Long/Flat Trend ETF (LFEQ).
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