| There's no shortage of ETFs and ETNs available on U.S. exchanges that offer exposure to a specific commodity and that high level of choice is good for investors. There also isn't a dearth of ETFs that offer basket exposure to several commodities. Again, that's a good thing.
At least it should be. The problem with many ETFs that take the basket approach to commodities, commonly known as commodity index ETFs, is that they aren't all that diverse. Frankly, most are excessively weighted to a mixture of energy futures contracts meaning investors are basically buying an oil/natural gas ETF..............................................Full Article: Source
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