In March 2007 Schroder Investment Management launched a commodity futures fund onto the Hong Kong public, one of the first such products available to retail investors. It became a major hit, quickly shooting into Schroders' top five retail funds by sales.

The US$1 billion fund has been available to high net worth and institutional investors globally since October 2005 as a Luxembourg Part II product. Such a classification means the fund is not automatically available to retail investors in all