The Vista Commodity Basket of 15 diversified commodity futures contracts is up 9.16% in August 2026. This edges both the S&P GSCI and Bloomberg commodity indexes for the month.
The legacy "headline indexes, as represented by their exchange traded funds, DJP for the Bloomberg and GSG for the S&P GSCI, have had their best years in their history and still came up short versus the Vista basket over the long-term.
Iran war effects have led to the largest increase in legacy indexes in years:
This is especially noted in the 70% energy weighted GSCI. The Vista basket return has been hurt by the low returns in gold, unchanged in 2026 and especially frozen concentrated orang juice, down 39%!
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