Shop Around for Commodity Funds

The other day I wrote about a new family of exchange-traded notes from a company called Elements that use indices created by legendary commodities investor Jimmy Rogers.

But anyone looking to get exposure to this asset class has many new exchange-traded products to choose from, so you should not buy from one provider without at least looking at the others.

In that article I made a reference to one of several new commodity iPath ETNs from Barclays Global, a unit of Barclays PLC (BCS Quote) that also sponsors the iShares brand of exchange-traded funds. Barclays has recently expanded its lineup of commodities products in a meaningful way, adding several products that track narrower sectors of the market:

• iPath DJ AIG Agriculture Total Return Sub Index(JJA Quote)
• iPath DJ AIG Copper Total Return Sub Index(JJC Quote)
• iPath DJ AIG Grains Total Return Sub Index(JJG Quote)
• iPath DJ AIG Energy Total Return Sub Index(JJE Quote)
• iPath DJ AIG Industrial Metals Total Return Sub Index(JJM Quote)
• iPath DJ AIG Livestock Total Return Sub Index(COW Quote)
• iPath DJ AIG Natural Gas Total Return Sub Index(GAZ Quote)
• iPath DJ AIG Nickel Total Return Sub Index(JJN Quote)

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