The Easiest way to Invest in Copper

Well, we think the easiest way for most investors would be to access uh copper miners uh through an ETF.

Uh copper miners are already operating at healthy margins as we've seen considerable price improvement in copper over the last several years.

Um and the ETF gives you some advantages over single stock selection because you do get diversification.

You're not just tied to one minor.

Also, uh it could be difficult for some investors to access foreign markets by investing in an ETF.

Uh the ETF can hold domestic and foreign equities.

Um so it is a an easy well- diversified way for investors access the copper market.

Uh the spat copper miners ETF ticker COP uh that actually provides pure play exposure to copper miners.

Um and it also has about a 5% allocation of physical silver uh via closend fund that uh the ETF actually holds.

And then we also have the SPRA Junior Copper Miners ETF ticker COPJ.

Again, this is a pure play strategy uh focusing on junior copper miners, which tend to be exploration and development companies.

Um, and in our view, you know, we define a pure play company as a company that has at least 50% of its revenue or assets tied to mining, developing or exploring for uh copper.

Um, and when we look at these two ETFs, COP is the only pure play all cap copper ETF uh in the US market.

Uh, it also is the only ETF that provides physical copper exposure.

And then COPJ uh is the only uh copper uh junior copper ETF rather uh offered to US investors as