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Each of the above three ways to gain economic exposure to the price of
gold has pros
and cons. Holding physical gold provides direct economic exposure to a highly liquid market for
physical gold, but the costs of storage, transfer, and verification can be prohibitive, particularly
for smaller investors. Exchange traded products largely overcome these high
expenses, but can
only provide indirect exposure to the price of physical gold. Although many ETFs hold large
volumes of physical gold, investors are not entitled to any specific allocation, meaning that
some counterparty risk is baked into the product. Gold derivatives are free of such
counterparty risks, but their use requires fine tuning and sophistication. They are not generally
a cost-effective way for typical investors to gain economic exposure to gold prices.
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