20 years ago we launched SPDR® Gold Shares (GLD®) in partnership with the World Gold Council — democratizing access to gold for all investors.
Today, GLD is the world’s largest and most-traded gold ETF.¹ Chief Gold Strategist, George Milling-Stanley, reflects on the tremendous growth of the world’s first physically-backed gold ETF.
What Can Gold Do for You?
Gold’s investment characteristics, rooted in multiple sources of demand across global economic and business cycles, may help gold serve multiple roles in an investor’s portfolio — during good times and bad.
Gold Is Not Just Another Commodity
Gold is often classified as a commodity alongside other precious metals or broader commodities, like oil and real estate. But with gold’s unique fundamentals and characteristics, it may warrant its own classification in an investor’s portfolio.
Choose Gold in an ETF
Investors can access gold in many different ways — from bars and coins to mutual funds and futures contracts. But gold-backed exchange traded funds (ETFs) offer a high degree of flexibility, transparency, and accessibility to the gold market with the cost-effective liquidity benefits of an ETF wrapper. Learn about the different ways gold can be added to a portfolio and the potential advantages of accessing gold using an ETF.
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