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title: "AI Gold Rush Meets Rare Earth Demand In WisdomTree's New ETF Launch"
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description: "WisdomTree has launched the Efficient Rare Earth Plus Strategic Metals Fund (WDIG), an actively managed ETF targeting the rising demand for critical minerals essential for AI infrastructure, EVs, and advanced technologies. The fund offers approximately 90% exposure to global mining and strategic metals companies, alongside commodity metals futures. With an expense ratio of 0.55%, WDIG aims to capture increasing commodity demand amid global supply chain concerns and geopolitical tensions surrounding critical minerals."
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# AI Gold Rush Meets Rare Earth Demand In WisdomTree's New ETF Launch

**WisdomTree** **Inc** (NYSE:WT) launched the **WisdomTree Efficient Rare Earth Plus Strategic Metals Fund** (BATS:WDIG), a new actively managed ETF designed to tap into the rising demand for critical minerals powering artificial intelligence infrastructure, electrification, and advanced industrial technologies.

The fund, launched last week, expands the asset manager's lineup of capital-efficient thematic strategies. WDIG combines exposure to commodity futures and global mining equities tied to strategic metals and rare earth supply chains, areas increasingly viewed as economically and geopolitically important as governments and industries race to secure access to key materials.

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**Key Features Of WDIG**

-   Roughly **90% exposure to global mining and strategic metals companies,** alongside about **90% notional exposure to commodity metals futures contracts**
-   **Expense ratio**: 0.55%
-   Exposure to metals tied to **AI infrastructure, EVs, batteries, renewable energy, and industrial technologies**
-   Holdings linked to **aluminum, cobalt, copper, lead, lithium, nickel, platinum, silver, tin, zinc,** and **rare earth materials**
-   **Actively managed strategy** using a proprietary model-driven allocation approach instead of tracking a conventional index
-   Global investment universe spanning both **developed and emerging market** mining companies

The ETF arrives amid surging investor interest in commodities linked to AI data centers, electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, and autonomous technologies — all of which rely heavily on metals such as copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt, silver, and rare earth elements.

According to **Christopher Gannatti**, Global Head of Research at WisdomTree, the strategy is designed to capture both rising commodity demand and tightening global supply dynamics. Unlike traditional mining ETFs, WDIG blends metals futures exposure with equities in mining companies, creating what WisdomTree describes as a "capital-efficient" structure aimed at offering diversified exposure across the strategic metals ecosystem.

The launch also comes as global supply chain concerns and geopolitical tensions continue to elevate critical minerals from industrial inputs to strategic national assets.

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