Goldhub blog: Posts from July 2020
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Podcast: Andrew Naylor explores Gold Demand Trends on Money FM 89.3
Andrew Naylor, Head of ASEAN and Public Policy, explores findings from our Q2 and H1 Gold Demand Trends report in this podcast with Money FM 89.3India’s gold market in June: Jewellery demand improved further, continued inflows into Indian gold ETFs
Jewellery demand improved further in the month but failed to recover completely due to recurring lockdowns, lower number of weddings and lack of auspicious days in the month. Bullish gold price momentum and safe-haven demand lured investors towards gold ETFs. Total holdings for Indian gold ETFs reached to 24t in June.Is gold ready for a pause technically?
We often discuss the fundamental drivers of gold as being a function of economic expansion, risk and uncertainty, opportunity cost and momentum.Bringing transparency to sovereign wealth fund gold holdings
Despite a general belief that Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) do not invest in gold, our engagement with these institutions in recent years has increasingly shown that many SWFs do incorporate gold in their portfolios for diversification, capital preservation, and other factors.
All-time highs for #gold – a thread
Gold hit a new all-time high this morning, posting $1944.71/oz during late Asian trading and is currently near that level.
There has been a LOT of coverage of the all-time-high on social media – who knew there were so many #gold experts??? https://t.co/OfjfFhoa7R
Gold-based COVID-19 testing – an update
The need for accurate, rapid and cost-effective gold-based testing tools is more acute now than has been at any other point throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, especially as some countries begin to emerge from lockdown.Interview: Gold mid-year outlook 2020
Our Managing Director, US, Joe Cavatoni discusses our Gold mid-year outlook 2020 with Maria Rosati, Contributing Editor at WealthManagement.com
Jennifer Johnson-Calari
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Capital preservation in a post-COVID world
For central banks focused on capital preservation, in the post-COVID world, gold may be safer than traditional reserve assets such as government bonds over a medium term horizon.Webinar: John Reade at the Pensions Age virtual conference
Watch our Chief Market Strategist John Reade presenting the case for ‘Gold, the most effective commodity investment’ at Pensions Age’s recent virtual conference in June.
China’s gold market in June: demand stabilised; gold ETF market expanded
Discover more on China's gold market in June - gold prices, trends in ETFs, China's economic revival, gold demand and more.Webinar: Joe Cavatoni joins an expert panel to discuss Real Assets
Our Head of Americas and Global ETFs, Joe Cavatoni, joined an expert panel this week for a NYSE webinar ‘Investing in Real Assets: 2020 Mid-Year Market Outlook’Gold at $1800/oz: a short thread.
Gold is trading just above $1800/oz after hitting a fresh 8-year high this week. Not much appears to stand in the way of #gold challenging the all-time high of $1921/oz set in September 2011. https://t.co/aoJYd8gmhR
Podcast: Central bank gold reserves before and after the Covid-19 shock
Our Director of Central Banks and Public Policy, Kurtulus Taskale Diamondopoulos, joins Pierre Ortlieb, economist at OMFIF, to discuss central bank gold reserves management amid the coronavirus pandemic.On Twitter: Juan Carlos Artigas discusses measuring gold’s performance, in response to an earlier tweet: https://bit.ly/2ZgMnCE
@BrianFeroldi @efmacpherson @JReade_WGC agreed, tons of interesting stuff – understandably common but inaccurate way to measure/compare gold's performance, most of which we cover in 'The relevance of gold as a strategic asset': https://bit.ly/2W2T6ha
1) As per @efmacpherson, gold and the dollar were pegged till 1971; need to disentangle that effect to go that far back; seen from the currency lens, gold has considerably outperformed fiat money