Harbor’s latest insights and differentiated strategy to help investors navigate the current market environment and hedge against inflation
Commodities and inflation have a special relationship, where the rise in commodities prices can often be an indicator of increasing inflation…
Listen to Spencer Logan, CFA, Investment Specialist, share how commodities stand out as an inflation hedge and why Harbor’s All-Weather Inflation Focus ETF (HGER) serves as a distinct and powerful hedging tool.
Commodities are a broad, but distinguishable asset class with returns that are largely independent of stock and bond returns. They include precious metals such as gold and silver, industrial metals like copper, zinc, and aluminum, oil and natural gas, livestock, and food-based commodities like grains, coffee and sugar. Adding commodity exposure can help diversify an existing portfolio of stocks and bonds, and potentially lower the risk of a portfolio, while helping to boost return potential—particularly, during periods of rising inflation.
Inflation is at a 40-year high and rising inflation can erode a portfolio’s purchasing power.
Explore how commodities have shown to be an impactful inflation hedge in this infographic.
Access a vehicle that targets liquid and inflation sensitive commodities, accounts for multiple forms of inflation, addresses the impact of futures roll yields, avoids the need for K-1 tax filing*, and more.
HGER—An ETF specifically designed to hedge inflation.
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Investing involves risk, principal loss is possible. Unlike mutual funds, ETFs may trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value. The ETF is new and has limited operating history to judge.
There is no guarantee that the investment objective of the Fund will be achieved. Stock markets are volatile and equity values can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market and economic conditions. A non-diversified Fund may invest a greater percentage of its assets in securities of a single issuer, and/or invest in a relatively small number of issuers, it is more susceptible to risks associated with a single economic, political or regulatory occurrence than a more diversified portfolio.
Commodity Risk: The Fund has exposure to commodities through its and/or the Subsidiary's investments in commodity-linked derivative instruments. Authorized Participant Concentration/Trading Risk: Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. Commodity- Linked Derivatives Risk: The Fund's investments in commodity-linked derivative instruments (either directly or through the Subsidiary) and the tracking of an Index comprised of commodity futures may subject the Fund to significantly greater volatility than investments in traditional securities.
Beta is a measure of systematic risk, or the sensitivity of a fund to movements in the benchmark. A beta of 1 implies that the expected movement of a fund's return would match that of the benchmark used to measure beta.
*Schedule K-1 is an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax form issued annually for an investment in a partnership. A Schedule K-1 is issued to taxpayers who have invested in limited partnerships (LPs) and some exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
The Quantix Inflation Index (QII) was developed by Quantix Commodities LP and is owned by Quantix Commodities Indices LLC (“Quantix”). The QII was created with the objective of being a diversified inflation hedge for investors using commodity futures contracts, traded in the U.S. and the U.K., as part of their core investment. Commodity futures are distinctive in their relationship to inflation and are generally regarded as having the highest positive correlation to inflation of all the major asset classes. The QII is designed to provide a risk management framework to hedge inflation risk appropriately in connection with commodity investing, taking account of the relative inflation sensitivity of each commodity among a defined universe of commodities, the relative cost of holding a rolling, U.S. or U.K.-listed futures position in a given commodity and the relative impact of inflation on each particular commodity.
Quantix Commodities LP ("Quantix") is a third-party subadviser to the Harbor All-Weather Inflation Focus ETF.
Foreside Fund Services, LLC is the Distributor of the Harbor ETFs.
Harbor Funds Distributors, Inc. is the Distributor of the Harbor Mutual Funds.