List of Softs ETFs: FKnol.com

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Soft commodities, or simple called as softs, are agriculture and farm produce that include cocoa, corn, coffee, sugar, soybean, wheat, fruits like oranges and even livestock. In general, anything which is grown, instead of being mined from the earth, is called a soft produce or a soft commodity. Investors often like to explore new avenues of investments and the segment of softs has gained popularity as an investment class. A good number of financial products are available in the market which allow exposure for trading and investing in individual soft commodities, or in a mixed basket of softs. For instance, advanced and complex financial products like futures and options are available for trading on products like coffee, orange and wheat. Similarly, there are mutual funds which allow exposure to such agriculture produce as an asset category. Investors also have an option to buy stocks of the companies which are in the business of soft commodities. Owing to the increasing popularity of soft commodities for investments, many asset management companies and fund houses have launched softs-based exchange-traded funds (ETF).
Following is the list of all 6 exchange-traded funds that FKnol has in its database for ETFs which belong to the Softs category:

All Softs ETFs

List of All Softs ETFs

Ticker	Name	Short Description	Expense Ratio	No. of Holdings	Dividend Frequency	Asset Class
NIB	iPath Dow Jones-UBS Cocoa ETN	The iPath Bloomberg Cocoa Subindex Total Return ETN tracks an index that holds a single cocoa futures contract, with varying maturity. ...Full Details	0.75%	1	NA	Cocoa
BJO	iPath Series B Bloomberg Coffee Subindex Total Return ETN	The iPath Series B Bloomberg Coffee Subindex Total Return ETN tracks an index that holds a single coffee futures contract with varying maturities. ...Full Details	0.45%	1	Annually	Coffee
BALB	iPath Series B Bloomberg Cotton Subindex Total Return ETN	The iPath Series B Cotton Subindex Total Return ETN tracks a single cotton futures contract with one month to five months to maturity, depending on the time of year. ...Full Details	0.45%	1	Annually	Cotton
JJSB	iPath Series B Bloomberg Softs Subindex Total Return ETN	The iPath Series B Bloomberg Softs Subindex Total Return ETN tracks an index of soft commodity futures contracts with varying maturities. ...Full Details	0.45%	3	Annually	Softs-Broad
SGGB	iPath Series B Bloomberg Sugar Subindex Total Return ETN	The iPath Series B Bloomberg Sugar Subindex Total Return ETN tracks an index of a single futures contract on sugar with varying maturity. ...Full Details	0.45%	1	Annually	Sugar
CANE	Teucrium Sugar	The Teucrium Sugar Fund (NYSE: CANE) provides investors unleveraged direct exposure to sugar without the need for a futures account. ...Full Details	1%	1	NA	Sugar

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How Softs ETFs Work?

Working like a mutual fund, these softs ETF invest the money of the investor in stocks of companies which are deriving their business from soft commodity segment, or they directly invest in the physical produce, or they may take positions in futures (and options) contracts. A few may also invest in softs-based mutual funds and other related investments. Overall, the softs ETFs allow investors an easy way to invest their money in their choice of a particular soft commodity, or in a mixed bag of multiple soft commodities.
Soft commodity ETFs are a special subset of the larger Agriculture ETFs (List), which allow exposure to a larger basket of agro-products. Investors should note that such investments have high dependence on seasonal factors like weather, and may be subject to high expense ratio depending upon several factors like which products the ETF is investing into, the global reach of investments and associated cost of operations like purchasing and storing physical soft commodities. One can also explore the List of Natural Resources ETFs as an associated investment class.