| Investing in physical precious metals can be a costly proposition due to associated factors like transportation and warehousing. For precious metal investors, ETFs can provide an alternative investment option, as can gold stock investments and gold-based mutual funds.
The largest ETF, the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD), has generally followed the returns in gold. GLD fell 9.3% due to the 9.6% fall in gold prices so far in 2015. The iShares Silver Trust ETF (SLV) fell 9.1% owing to the 8.9% fall in silver prices...............................................Full Article: Source
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