Where to Get Commodity Exposure via ETFs in 2010

After a roller-coaster decade of returns in traditional asset classes like stocks and bonds, many investors have started looking to alternative assets, like commodities, to help round out portfolios. Of course, adding commodities to an asset allocation strategy is no silver bullet. Buying natural gas futures doesn’t give you a stake in the cash flow of a business like stocks or the steady income stream from bonds. And the correlation between commodities (particularly oil) and the broader economic cycle seems to be rising. Still, commodities can make sense as a small part (~5%) of a portfolio.