ASA - Mining The Gold Marketplace For Unique Opportunities
2024-02-26 00:21:06 ET
Summary
- Our interview explores investing in gold and understanding the different investment options and approaches available to investors with a deep dive into small gold mining companies.
- Discussion with the CIO of Merk Investments also reveals that there are different kinds of investors in this unique ecosystem that can impact this marketplace.
- Investing in smaller gold mining companies carries higher risk but also higher potential returns.
[ Gold investing offers a diverse marketplace of investment options and approaches for investors. The main motivations to invest in gold have been for diversification, as an inflation hedge, or for speculation, but the big reason is for the dynamics of this market that are different from traditional equities and for unique niches of opportunities like small-to-mid-size mining companies. Some of these opportunities, like the latter, have been hard to access and participate in. What also complicates this area of the market is that there are different kinds of investors in this unique ecosystem that can impact this marketplace.
To learn more about the marketplace for investing in gold, we were introduced to Axel Merk , President and Chief Investment Officer of Merk Investments - a $1 billion investment advisory firm offering investment funds and advisory services on the global gold and precious metals markets, including the ASA Gold and Precious Metals Limited (ASA) closed-end fund. We asked him questions to explore the theoretical arguments for investing in gold, understand the different investment options, and discover how GOLD is more than just a shiny brick that competes with cash .]...
Mining The Gold Marketplace For Unique Opportunities