With gold at another record, ETF
analysts share ways to get in on the rally
07
August 2020
The
precious metal hit yet another all-time high on Thursday as worries around
Covid-19′s economic impact persisted. Gold is up more than 36% year to
date and about 40% since it bottomed in mid-March.Gold ETFs have also been
surging in popularity. SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), the largest fund backed by
physical gold in the world, was the most popular gold ETF in the month of July,
pulling in more than $3 billion in assets.
These
products are “certainly punching above their weight,” Todd Rosenbluth, senior
director of ETF and mutual fund research at CFRA Research, said Monday on
CNBC’s “ETF Edge.”“You also want to pay attention to the mining plays of this,”
he said. “GDX and GDXJ are the gold mining ETFs that are performing quite well.
There hasn’t been the same demand, but obviously if the price of gold goes up,
that’s a good thing for those that are producing it.”Jay Jacobs, senior vice
president and head of research and strategy at Global X ETFs, also liked the
mining space.
“It’s
easy for investors to forget about precious metals because when you’re in a
great bull market, sometimes you look at your portfolio and those gold and
silver positions might not be as high flying as U.S. equities,” he said in the
same “ETF Edge” interview. “But they prove their worth in troubling times, and
right now is certainly a turbulent time for the markets.”Global X’s Silver
Miners ETF (SIL) offers one potential way to use the turbulence to your
advantage, Jacobs said.
“The
mining space provides more leveraged exposure to the underlying commodities,
so, if gold or silver’s up, the miners tend to be up more,” he said. “That
means you can carve out a smaller portion of your portfolio and put it into the
mining space and still get similar notional exposure to that gold or silver
trade. So, we like that as a long-term position that people might have to
forget about for five years. But it’ll play a handy role when the time is
right.”
SIL
fell about 1% in early Thursday trading.
Source:
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