- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Asset Management
- Address
- 3 Lombard Street London United Kingdom EC3V 9AA
- IPO Date
- Jan 2, 2008
- Business
- WisdomTree Cotton (COTN.MI) is a fully collateralised, UCITS-eligible exchange traded commodity (ETC) that provides investors with total return exposure to cotton futures contracts by synthetically replicating the Bloomberg Commodity Cotton Subindex 4W Total Return (BCOMCT4T); the index reflects the price movements of continuously rolled cotton futures contracts from the Bloomberg Commodity Index, incorporating roll yield effects from contango or backwardation, with exposure achieved through fully funded collateralised swaps backed by high-quality sovereign bonds primarily from the United States, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, and Finland. Issued as a debt security rather than equity, the ETC enables creation and redemption by authorised participants and trades on exchanges like Borsa Italiana, London Stock Exchange, and Xetra; it targets institutional and retail investors seeking commodities exposure without physical delivery, storage, or insurance management, with a management expense ratio of 0.49% and daily swap rate of approximately 0.001233%. Domiciled in Jersey and launched on 22 September 2006, the product is issued by WisdomTree Commodity Securities Limited, with key service providers including The Law Debenture Trust Corporation p.l.c. as trustee, The Bank of New York Mellon as collateral manager, and swap counterparties Citigroup Global Markets Limited and Merrill Lynch International; it lists across multiple European venues in USD and EUR, passporting to countries including AT, BE, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, IE, IT, LU, NL, NO, PL, and SE.
No major acquisitions, funding rounds, partnerships, new product launches, or strategic shifts specific to WisdomTree Cotton have been reported in the last 1-2 years; the ETC continues to operate under its established synthetic replication structure with ongoing collateral management and index tracking, maintaining listings on key European exchanges amid stable market-making arrangements.