What to Know when Investing in Copper

Uh I would say first that investing in when you do invest in an ETF if that is the route you choose to go uh it's important to look past the name of the fund.

Um you know I mentioned that our strategies are pure play.

Uh we think that's really important particularly in the copper markets.

Uh because if you look at the 10 largest copper producers only three of them are publicly traded and majority copper uh miners.

So a lot of those producers might have less than 10% of their revenue that is coming from mining copper.

So if you were to invest in a company that has a you know maybe uh a strategy that has copper in the name it has a broader mandate uh you could have a lot of unintended exposure uh that you're you're getting access to uh so it really waters down that copper exposure and then I would just say you know finally you know when you start looking at at copper markets and a lot of commodity markets uh they can go through periods of volatility so I think it's very important to look at the fundamentals and take a longer term view uh before entering those positions And just to understand and and be comfortable with the volatility you might have in the short term while understanding the long-term view of the