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Investing in gold a study
Gold can be invested in through various channels like bars, coins, accounts, exchange traded products, certificates, derivatives and mining companies. The price of gold is affected by factors like international prices, interest rates, dollar-rupee dynamics, central bank reserves and demand for the metal. Evaluating gold's performance over different time periods shows it has a low correlation with other commodities and assets like stocks, moving more independently based on its safe haven status.
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- 1. Investing in Gold-Astudy Puneet Arora-75141 Shantanu Vashishth-75150 Teacher-Ms. Vibhuti Vashishth BFIA 2B
- 2. Contents • Investment Channels •Factors affecting Gold prices in India • Evaluating performance of Gold
- 3. Investment Channels Gold coins& bars Accounts Exchange Traded Products Certificates Derivatives,CFDs and spread bettings Mining Companies Contents
- 4. Gold bars &coins most traditional way of investing in gold is by buying bullion gold bars these can easily be bought or sold at the major banks or from bullion dealers gold bars carry lower premium over spot price than gold coins. larger bars carry an increased risk of forgery. The Krugerrand is the most widely-held gold bullion coin, with 46,000,000 troy ounces (1,400 tonnes) in circulation.
- 5. Accounts Gold bullion banksoffer two types of gold accounts - allocated and unallocated: 1. Allocated account 2. Unallocated account Other opportunities for smaller investors include: 1. Gold pool accounts 2. Electronic currencies
- 6. Exchange Traded Products includeETFs, ETNs, and CEFs which are traded like shares on the major stock exchanges. Gold ETPs represent an easy way to gain exposure to the gold price, without the inconvenience of storing physical bars. Typically a small commission is charged for trading in gold ETPs and a small annual storage fee is charged. The annual expenses of the fund such as storage, insurance, and management fees are charged by selling a small amount of gold represented by each certificate, so the amount of gold in each certificate will gradually decline over time.
- 7. Certificates Gold certificates allowgold investors to avoid the risks and costs associated with the transfer and storage of physical bullion (such as theft, large bid-offer spread, and metallurgical assay costs) It entails taking on a different set of risks and costs associated with the certificate itself (such as commissions, storage fees, and various types of credit risk).
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- 9. Factors affecting goldprices in India International prices. Interest rates. Dollar-Rupee Dynamics Central Banks Reserves Demand for the metal Gold Production The changes in the CME restrictions.
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- 13. Demand for themetal Back
- 14. Data source: Gemsand Jewellery Export Promotion Council
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- 16. Evaluating performance of Gold3-yearweekly return correlation on key commodities and gold 1-year annualised daily return volatility on key commodities and gold 22-day rolling annualised daily return volatility on gold and S&P GS Performance of gold v/s other metals Performance of gold v/s other commodities Gold and S&P(% year charts) Gold & Trade-weighted US dollar Gold v/s Sensex
- 17. 0.47 0.53 0.45 0.15 -0.01 0.21 0.35 0.45 0.47 0.66 0.48 0.73 -0.2 0.0 0.20.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 R/J CRB Commodity Index DJ UBS Commodity Index S&P GS Commodity Index DJ UBS Softs Index DJ UBS Livestock Index DJ UBS Grains Index DJ UBS Energy Index Brent crude oil (US$/bbl) DJ UBS Industrial Index Platinum (US$/oz) Palladium (US$/oz) Silver (US$/oz) Correlation Notes: Data ending 28 September 2012 Source: Bloomberg, LBMA, LME, World Gold Council Chart: 3-year weekly return correlation on key commodities and gold
- 18. 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 DJUBSLivestockIndex Gold(US$/oz) R/JCRBCommodityIndex DJUBSCommodityIndex S&PGSCommodityIndex Platinum(US$/oz) DJUBSSoftsIndex CopperLME(US$/t) AluminumLME(US$/t) ZincLME(US$/t) NickelLME(US$/t) Brentcrudeoil(US$/bbl) Palladium(US$/oz) LeadLME(US$/t) DJUBSEnergyIndex Silver(US$/oz) DJUBSGrainsIndex TinLME(US$/t) % Notes: Data ending28 September 2012 Source:Bloomberg, LBMA, LME, World Gold Council Chart: 1-year annualised daily return volatility on key commodities and gold (US$)
- 19. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 10/2002 04/2004 10/200504/2007 10/2008 04/2010 10/2011 % Gold (US$/oz) S&P GS Commodity Index Notes: Data ending 30 September 2012 Source:Bloomberg, World Gold Council Chart: 22-day rolling anualized daily return volatility on gold and S&P GS
- 20. Gold (US$/oz) Silver (US$/oz) Palladium (US$/oz) Platinum (US$/oz) Aluminum LME (US$/t) Copper LME (US$/t) LeadLME (US$/t) Nickel LME (US$/t) Tin LME (US$/t) Zinc LME (US$/t) 1-month 7.0% 13.0% 3.1% 10.1% 12.1% 8.6% 17.2% 13.8% 11.5% 13.9% 3-month 14.0% 29.2% 13.0% 19.6% 14.3% 11.4% 30.0% 13.1% 14.9% 16.0% 6-month 7.1% 9.0% -1.0% 2.1% -0.6% -1.1% 15.6% 6.4% -3.1% 5.1% 1-year 10.1% 14.8% 2.9% 9.2% -4.2% 18.5% 14.7% 0.3% 5.1% 11.6% 3-year 78.4% 110.6% 115.9% 28.0% 13.1% 34.7% 1.1% 6.8% 43.4% 9.1% 5-year 139.0% 153.8% 83.6% 20.0% -14.1% 1.3% -33.4% -40.3% 42.0% -31.7% 3y CAGR 21.3% 28.2% 29.2% 8.6% 4.2% 10.5% 0.4% 2.2% 12.8% 3.0% 5y CAGR 19.0% 20.5% 12.9% 3.7% -3.0% 0.3% -7.8% -9.8% 7.3% -7.4% Performance of Gold V/s Other metals
- 21. Colum n1 Gold (US$/oz) Brentcrude oil (US$/bbl) DJ UBS Energy Index DJ UBS Grains Index DJ UBS Livestock Index DJ UBS Softs Index S&P GS Commodity Index DJ UBS Commodity Index R/J CRB Commodity Index 1- month 7.0% -0.1% 4.0% -4.9% -2.1% -0.3% -1.4% 1.7% -0.1% 3- month 14.0% 23.9% 18.9% 13.5% -5.3% -0.3% 11.9% 9.5% 8.9% 6- month 7.1% -8.3% 1.6% 25.5% -3.9% -13.8% -3.9% 3.3% -0.9% 1-year 10.1% 6.4% -4.8% 38.4% -11.4% -22.9% 13.8% 5.9% 4.4% 3-year 78.4% 67.4% -25.9% 75.7% 4.4% 22.7% 23.1% 19.9% 22.7% 5-year 139.0% 42.6% -61.4% 19.9% -45.9% 18.2% -23.3% -13.5% -3.2% 3y CAGR 21.3% 18.7% -9.5% 20.7% 1.4% 7.1% 7.2% 6.2% 7.0% 5y CAGR 19.0% 7.4% -17.3% 3.7% -11.6% 3.4% -5.2% -2.8% -0.6% Performance of Gold & other commodities
- 22. 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 10/2002 10/2004 10/200610/2008 10/2010 Index level Gold (US$/oz) S&P 500 Notes: Data ending 30 September 2012 Source:Bloomberg, World Gold Council Chart 5: Gold and S&P 500 in US$ (2 Sep 2002=100)
- 23. 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 10/2002 10/2004 10/200610/2008 10/2010 Index level Gold (US$/oz) Trade-weighted US$ Notes: Data ending 30 September 2012 Source:Bloomberg, World Gold Council Chart 6: Gold (US$/oz) and the trade-weighted US dollar
- 24. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 10/2002 04/2004 10/200504/2007 10/2008 04/2010 10/2011 % Gold (US$/oz) S&P 500 Chart 4: 22-day rolling anualized daily return volatility on gold and S&P 500 (US$) Notes: Data ending 30 September 2012 Source:Bloomberg, World Gold Council
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Editor's Notes
- #9 Instead of buying gold itself, investors can buy the companies that produce the gold as shares in gold mining companies. If the gold price rises, the profits of the gold mining company could be expected to rise and the worth of the company will rise and presumably the share price will also rise.
- #10 1: From 1970 to 1980 there has been a decline and then a stagnation in the world gold production resulting in a higher gold price (positive divergence). The price was too low for several decades, forcing some gold mines to close as production costs were above the selling price.Then from 1980 to 2001, for 20 years, the gold world production has increased resulting this time in a decrease of the gold price (negative divergence). Gold mines were producing more in order to compensate for the price decline from $850 to less than 250 dollars an ounce ...2: From 2001 to 2008, we had a decline in gold production and higher prices from 2008 to 2010 (positive divergence). Gold production decreased by 340 tonnes while the gold price has tripled. The prices were too low to encourage the opening of new gold mines as well as exploration.CME-during September 2011 the CME decided to raise margins on gold and silver contracts; the market’s reaction was very quick and bullion rates tumbled down. This is a type of market intervention. If the CME will raise margins due to another heat up in precious metals market, then prices are likely to tumble down;
- #11 Central banks keep ignot reserves as a hedge against inflation.