Two new publicly traded uranium investment funds are adding to the competition. The funds are similar to gold and silver exchange-traded funds, raising money from investors in initial public offerings of shares to buy uranium.
New Uranium Participation Corp. Follows Gold ETF Footprints By David J. DesLauriers 30 May 2005 at 06:05 PM GMT-04:00 TORONTO (ResourceInvestor.com) -- Uranium is trading at 23-year highs and has been quite a hot topic in the last few months, with many well-known resource bulls and prognosticators calling for much higher prices before the end of this decade. Aside from all of the juniors rushing to stake and revive projects of dubious value, a group has come together to facilitate a direct bet on uranium for retail and institutional investors. This is similar to the various Gold ETFs in Australia, London, Toronto and New York that have taken billions of dollars of gold off of the market, with the most popular ETF, StreetTracks [NYSE:GLD] now holding more than $2 billion worth of gold bullion in trust. UPC Uranium Participation Corporation [TSX:U] recently raised C$100 million in an IPO at C$5. As of May 10 the company had made commitments to buy 1.85 million pounds, or 835 tons, of uranium at $27.87 a pound for a total of $52 million. UPC follows in the footsteps of Portland, Oregon-based fund Adit Capital Management, which started buying uranium in December, and reportedly had physical uranium valued at more than $26 million.
By David J. DesLauriers 30 May 2005 at 06:05 PM GMT-04:00
TORONTO (ResourceInvestor.com) -- Uranium is trading at 23-year highs and has been quite a hot topic in the last few months, with many well-known resource bulls and prognosticators calling for much higher prices before the end of this decade. Aside from all of the juniors rushing to stake and revive projects of dubious value, a group has come together to facilitate a direct bet on uranium for retail and institutional investors. This is similar to the various Gold ETFs in Australia, London, Toronto and New York that have taken billions of dollars of gold off of the market, with the most popular ETF, StreetTracks [NYSE:GLD] now holding more than $2 billion worth of gold bullion in trust.
UPC
Uranium Participation Corporation [TSX:U] recently raised C$100 million in an IPO at C$5. As of May 10 the company had made commitments to buy 1.85 million pounds, or 835 tons, of uranium at $27.87 a pound for a total of $52 million.
UPC follows in the footsteps of Portland, Oregon-based fund Adit Capital Management, which started buying uranium in December, and reportedly had physical uranium valued at more than $26 million.
I've been very wary of putting money in uranium firms: most new ones are just exploratory start ups, and only those few which really find the richest veins will keep growing. Established mines with a track record and predictable production/reserves are under control of big companies, sometime states (Areva, parent of Cogema, one of the world's biggest, is only a few % floated, through just ADR-like stuff, the rest is french state, and it's not even a commodity pure-player: they also build the reactors and provide lots of services). Pierre
