iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust’s Process Pillar rating is Average, but a strong management team still helps this strategy retain its Morningstar Medalist Rating of Bronze. The strategy charges fees in line with its similarly distributed peers, priced within the middle quintile.  

 While the strategy has not disclosed the names of any of its management team members, other positive attributes lead to an Above Average People Pillar rating. The fund earns an Average Process Pillar rating. The strategy's parent organization earns the firm an Above Average Parent Pillar rating, and this rating is inherited from vehicles belonging to the same branding entity and is indirectly assigned by an analyst.

Analyst Rating

Morningstar's style-agnostic evaluation of this fund's process seeks to understand whether the strategy has a performance objective and sensible, clearly defined, repeatable execution. iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust earns an Average Process Pillar rating. The largest contributor to the rating is that this fund tracks an index. Historical data, such as Morningstar's Active/Passive Barometer, finds that passively managed funds have generally outperformed their active counterparts, especially over longer time horizons. 

The investment strategy as stated in the fund's prospectus is as follows: 

 The investment seeks to track the results of a fully collateralized investment in futures contracts on the S&P GSCI™ Total Return Index.  The Trust holds long positions in index futures that have settlement values at expiration based on the level of the S&P GSCI-ER at that time, and earning interest on its non-cash Collateral Assets used to satisfy applicable margin requirements on those index futures positions. The index reflects the return of the S&P GSCI-ER, together with the return on specified U.S. Treasury securities that are deemed to have been held to collateralize a hypothetical long position in the futures contracts comprising the S&P GSCI™.

Average

Process

This strategy's portfolio-management team has not disclosed any manager names, leaving behind limited data to form an analysis.

 Analyzing the remaining available data, the separate account earns an Above Average People Pillar rating, even though the separate account's performance has suffered recently compared with category peers.

Above Average

People

BlackRock offers compelling options across asset classes and vehicles. It earns an Above Average rating for Parent. 
The firm’s approximately USD 8 trillion in assets under management, as of Sept. 30, 2022, gives it unparalleled scale and influence. It is a market-leading index fund provider globally, and its iShares exchange-traded fund franchise offers a low-cost lineup of core funds that investors can use to build a well-diversified portfolio for dirt cheap. The firm can be more adventurous in its ETF launches than some peers, so not everything it launches is appropriate for the masses. As a result, it is likely to have more ETF closures than peers that stick to the basic building blocks.  
The firm’s active fixed-income and multi-asset efforts also stand out as some of the best in the industry. Those benefit from BlackRock’s commitment to building a first-class risk management system via its Aladdin analytics software. The software is also available for sale to other firms and has proved to be a popular option for competitors, a testament to its usefulness. 
More recently, the firm has shifted its focus to ESG offerings and incorporating ESG across its investment lineup, leading to a political backlash in the United States.
BlackRock isn’t the best at everything it tries to do, but retail investors, financial advisors, and large institutions could all build robust portfolios using BlackRock’s products.

Parent

iShares S&P GSCI Commodity Indexed Trust

GSG uses index futures contracts to gain exposure to a production-weighted index of front-month commodities futures contracts.

Commodities are showing signs of life as inflation picks up, making them attractive for investors looking for inflation plays. iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust is an ETF that offers exposure to a broad range of commodities and can be a valuable addition to a diversified portfolio. GSG has a heavy allocation to energy commodities, which could make it sensitive to changes in energy prices, and it has underperformed other similar commodity funds.

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The iShares® S&P GSCI™ Commodity-Indexed Trust (NYSE: GSG) today announced that its 2021 Schedule K-3 forms, which reflects items of international tax relevance, are available online. Shareholders of the Trust may access the Schedule K-3 at www.taxpackagesupport.com/iSharesGSG. Certain shareholders (primarily non-U.S. shareholders, shareholders computing a foreign tax credit on their tax return and certain corporate and/or partnership shareholders) may need the in

Schedule K-3 Forms Now Available for iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust (GSG) Shareholders

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