Oil and Natural Gas Funds

A select list of oil and gas index funds.

Oil and Natural Gas Index Funds

DBO - DB Oil (ETF). The investment seeks to track the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index - Optimum Yield Oil Excess Return. The index is a rules-based index composed of futures contracts on Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) and is intended to reflect the performance of crude oil. 0.60% expense ratio.

DIG - Ultra Oil and Gas fund (ETF) that emulates Dow Jones U.S. Oil & Gas index. 0.95% expense ratio.

UGA - U.S. Gasoline Fund (ETF). The investment objective of the Fund is to have the changes in percentage terms of the net asset value that reflect the changes in percentage terms of the price of gasoline. 0.60% expense ratio.

FCG - First Trust ISE-Revere Natural Gas Index Fund (ETF). The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield of an equity index called the ISE Revere Natural Gas Index before fees and expenses of the Fund. The Fund will normally invest at least 90 percent of its total assets in common stocks that comprise the Index. 0.60% expense ratio.

Indexes

ISE Revere Natural Gas Index - It holds 30 constituents in equal weights and rebalances quarterly. A company is included in FCG’s index if it has 50% or more of its proven reserves in natural gas.

Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index - The index is a rules-based index composed of futures contracts on Light Sweet Crude Oil which reflects the performance of crude oil

Dow Jones U.S. Oil & Gas index - measures the performance of the energy sector of the U.S. equity market. Component companies include oil drilling equipment and services, coal, oil companies-major, oil companies-secondary, pipelines, liquid, solid or gaseous fossil fuel producers and service companies.

Resources

Natural gas pipeline