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BCD vs USCI: Differences, Returns & Fees

BCD is a commodity fund and USCI a commodity futures fund, and over the year USCI returned +43.7% against +32.5%. Net assets: $450m on Oct 13, 2026 for abrdn Bloomberg All Commodity Longer Dated Strategy K-1 Free ETF, and $419m on Oct 14, 2026 for United States Commodity Index Fund ETV.

BCD costs 0.75 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 11.2 points.

BCD vs USCI: Differences, Returns & Fees
BCDUSCI
Expense ratio0.30%1.05%
Net assets, as of Oct 13, 2026$450m$422m
Total return, 1 year+32.5%+43.7%
What it tracksBloomberg Commodity Index 3 Month Forward Total ReturnBroad futures
Holdings in commonnot published
+32.5%
BCD total return, 1 year
+43.7%
USCI total return, 1 year
0.30%
BCD expense ratio
1.05%
USCI expense ratio
Client brief · page 1 of 2Report BR-3B61BD1535

BCD and USCI are built for the same job. How do they differ in cost, holdings and results?

  1. What each follows. BCD follows Bloomberg Commodity Index 3 Month Forward Total Return and USCI follows Broad futures.
  2. One-year total return. Over 1 year to Oct 14, 2026 BCD returned +32.5% and USCI +43.7% with distributions reinvested, a gap of 11.2 points.
  3. Cost. BCD charges 0.30% of assets a year and USCI 1.05%, a gap of 0.75 points.

Data as of Oct 14, 2026. The differences are picked by a fixed rule, in a fixed order; the PDF prints it. Page 2 has the returns, overlap, risks and sources.

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On the same fields

BCD
abrdn Bloomberg All Commodity Longer Dated Strategy K-1 Free ETF
USCI
United States Commodity Index Fund ETV
Where it sits Commodity ETF Commodity ETF
Issuer abrdn USCF
What it is Tracks an index Holds broad futures
Total return, 1 year +32.5% +43.7%
Expense ratio 0.30% 1.05%
Holdings 0 not read by ETFIQ
Net assets, BCD as of Oct 13, 2026 and USCI as of Oct 14, 2026 $450m $419m

BCD and USCI on the fields both publish, as of Oct 14, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

About BCD

BCD tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 14, 2026 it returned +32.5% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.30% a year.

About USCI

USCI holds broad futures. Over the year to Oct 14, 2026 it returned +43.7% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 1.05% a year.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, BCD or USCI?
In the year to Oct 14, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BCD returned +32.5% and USCI +43.7%.
Which is cheaper, BCD or USCI?
BCD is cheaper, by 0.75 percentage points a year. That is about $75 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
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Where these figures came from
BCD filings on SEC EDGAR ↗BCD prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗abrdn website ↗USCI filings on SEC EDGAR ↗USCF website ↗

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