Commodities in a basket

Goldman Sachs is offering a basket of commodities in differing proportions for a one-year exposure to oil, copper, platinum, soybeans and cotton. Any fall in the value of the basket brings with it capital loss, but there is no cap on returns

This is a one-year product that pays a return equal to the performance of an underlying basket of futures contracts for crude oil, copper, platinum, soybeans and cotton. Investors are exposed to any downside movement in the underlying. 

The basket is weighted as follows: 40% in the Nymex February 2012 WTI light sweet crude oil contract, 20% in the London Metals Exchange January 2012 Copper-Grade A contract, 20% in the Nymex January 2012 platinum contract, 10% in the CBOT March 2012 soybean