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The World Gold Council holds a number of programs and conferences designed to deliver incisive, timely content to investors and other key audiences.
News
New report urges investors to review risk allocation strategy
The World Gold Council has today released its latest quarterly investment journal, Gold Investor, which includes the research paper; Gold holdings: ample room for growth in a broad and liquid market. The paper highlights how the rapid growth of ‘paper’ assets driven by financial innovation, expansionary…
World Malaria Day: Gold helps transform malaria diagnosis
Malaria still kills more than 660,000 people every year according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the fight against the disease is being transformed by Rapid Diagnosis Tests (RDTs) which use tiny amounts of gold to identify patients in less than 20 minutes. Gold’s role in this important…
Commentary on the gold market from the World Gold Council
“It has become increasingly clear over the course of the past week that the fall in the gold price was triggered by speculative traders operating in the futures markets. Their short-term view of generating a trading profit is in stark contrast to the views of long term investors in gold, as evidenced…
L’Italia guarda all’oro come un’alternativa all’austerity
Secondo il primo sondaggio indipendente, su scala nazionale, svolto dopo le elezioni italiane del Febbraio 2013, i dirigenti d’impresa (91%) ed i cittadini italiani in generale (85%) concordano, in larga maggioranza, sul fatto che le riserve auree del Paese possano giocare un ruolo importante e…
Italy looks to gold as an alternative to austerity
Italian business leaders (91%) and citizens (85%) overwhelmingly agree that the nation’s gold reserves have an important and positive role to play in the country’s economic recovery, according to the first independent, nationwide poll of its kind since the recent Italian election in February 2013.
