Our research covers two principal areas:

• Gold market fundamental research: the World Gold Council is the authoritative source of insight, opinion, analysis and statistics on the dynamics of the gold market. We can draw upon unparalleled access to investors, central bankers and policymakers in conducting research into the gold market.
• Gold as an asset class research: we apply insight and knowledge in examining gold as a unique asset class and its role in modern investment portfolios.

Our team publishes the most reliable and easily accessible monthly and quarterly statistics and insight into the gold market. In addition to our own statistics on official gold holdings, we produce statistics on gold exchange traded fund holdings and gold investment.

We incorporate gold demand/supply and investment statistics from diverse sources such as: Thomson Reuters GFMS, MEG (Metals Economics Group), Brook-Hunt, IHS Global Insight, Datastream and national and supra-national government statistics.

In collaboration with leading academics and think tanks, we produce research into gold’s distinct properties as an asset class such as its roles as a portfolio foundation asset, as a portfolio diversifier and as a risk hedging asset class.

Regular publications from our gold market experts provide research and informed views on the market, as well as high level consulting services to institutional investors and investors of all kinds worldwide.