WisdomTree has announced the launch of the WisdomTree Efficient Rare Earth Plus Strategic Metals Fund (WDIG), a fund listed on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). The product expands WisdomTree’s suite of capital-efficient strategies, providing investors with access to companies and commodities linked to areas of growing importance for global economic and geopolitical trends, including critical materials used in electrification, AI infrastructure, and advanced industrial technologies.
WDIG seeks to generate total returns by combining exposure to equities with futures contracts on base metals and international companies primarily engaged in the extraction of strategic metals and rare earths, offering investors a differentiated way to capitalize on the increasing importance of critical minerals in the global economy.
“From electric vehicles and wind turbines to AI data centers and autonomous systems, many of the technologies shaping the future share a common foundation in strategic metals. At the same time, supply chains for many critical minerals remain highly concentrated, elevating their importance from commodities to strategic assets for both governments and industries,” said Christopher Gannatti, Global Head of Research at WisdomTree.
According to the executive, WDIG reflects “this convergence between growing demand and evolving supply dynamics, offering a way to access both the metals themselves and the companies that produce them.” Gannatti added that by combining commodity exposure with mining equities in a single structure, the strategy “provides investors with diversified access to a theme that, in our view, is becoming increasingly important for the next phase of the global economy.”
