MSCI Commodity Producers Indices
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The MSCI Commodity Producers Indices are free float-adjusted market capitalization indices designed to reflect the performance of listed commodity producers across three industry (or sub-industry) categories as defined by the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®): energy, metals and agriculture. |
Each MSCI Commodity Producers Index is constructed from an MSCI "parent index", and includes companies engaged in these industry categories:
- Integrated oil and gas, oil and gas production and exploration, coal and consumable fuels production and mining;
- Aluminum production, steel production, diversified production/extraction of metals and minerals, gold production, other precious metals and minerals mining;
- Agricultural production, production of fertilizers and agricultural chemicals, paper manufacturing, manufacturing of timber and wood products.
MSCI offers the following variants of its Commodity Producers Indices:
Using MSCI Commodity Producers Indices
While commodities are widely recognized as potential portfolio diversifiers and inflation hedges, commodity producers-companies involved in the production of raw materials - represent an equity-based approach to investing in this asset class. All MSCI Commodity Producers Indices may be used as benchmarks for tracking the performance characteristics of certain listed commodity producers or to construct index-linked investment vehicles such as listed and OTC derivatives, exchange traded products, and institutional and retail funds.