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BCI vs USCI: Differences, Returns & Fees

BCI is a commodity fund and USCI a commodity futures fund, and over the year USCI returned +43.7% against +41.5%. Net assets: $3.5bn on Oct 13, 2026 for abrdn Bloomberg All Commodity Strategy K-1 Free ETF, and $419m on Oct 14, 2026 for United States Commodity Index Fund ETV.

BCI costs 0.79 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 2.2 points; BCI is 8.4 times larger.

BCI vs USCI: Differences, Returns & Fees
BCIUSCI
Expense ratio0.26%1.05%
Net assets, as of Oct 13, 2026$3.5bn$422m
Total return, 1 year+41.5%+43.7%
What it tracksBloomberg Commodity Index Total ReturnBroad futures
Holdings in commonnot published
+41.5%
BCI total return, 1 year
+43.7%
USCI total return, 1 year
0.26%
BCI expense ratio
1.05%
USCI expense ratio
Client brief · page 1 of 2Report BR-EC332AE630

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

  1. What each follows. BCI follows Bloomberg Commodity Index Total Return and USCI follows Broad futures.
  2. One-year total return. Over 1 year to Oct 14, 2026 BCI returned +41.5% and USCI +43.7% with distributions reinvested, a gap of 2.2 points.
  3. Cost. BCI charges 0.26% of assets a year and USCI 1.05%, a gap of 0.79 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

BCI
abrdn Bloomberg All Commodity 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 +41.5% +43.7%
Expense ratio 0.26% 1.05%
Holdings 0 not read by ETFIQ
Net assets, BCI as of Oct 13, 2026 and USCI as of Oct 14, 2026 $3.5bn $419m

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

About BCI

BCI tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 14, 2026 it returned +41.5% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.26% 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, BCI or USCI?
In the year to Oct 14, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BCI returned +41.5% and USCI +43.7%.
Which is cheaper, BCI or USCI?
BCI is cheaper, by 0.79 percentage points a year. That is about $79 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
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Where these figures came from
BCI filings on SEC EDGAR ↗BCI prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗abrdn website ↗USCI filings on SEC EDGAR ↗USCF website ↗

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