Barclays Backwardation Tilt Multi-Strategy Capped Total Return
The Index provides broad-based exposure to commodities via a diversified basket of commodity futures with different expiry dates of up to 1 year, selecting specific contracts based on shape of the futures curve or other idiosyncratic properties.
The Index provides a return equivalent to a fully “collateralised” investment in a diversified portfolio of commodity “futures contracts” across the following sectors: (1) Energy; (2) Industrial metals; (3) Precious metals; (4) Agriculture; and (5) Livestock.
The Index return is comprised of: (1) the "spot" return which reflects the day-to-day changes in the prices of the commodity futures contracts; (2) the "roll" return associated with periodically selling the futures contracts that are nearing their expiry dates with later dated equivalents in order to maintain exposure to the commodity futures on an ongoing basis); and (3) the "collateral" return which reflects the interest that a commodity investor would earn where they deposit with a bank (for safe keeping) the cash that they will need to settle the contract at the future delivery date.
