With the price of gold trading above $1,430 an ounce as of June 25, now might be a good time for generalist investors to consider getting exposure to the yellow metal. Many investors have done just that. Bloomberg reports that SPDR Gold Shares, the world's largest ETF backed by physical gold, attracted nearly $1.6 billion last Friday alone, the fund's biggest one-day haul since its inception in 2004.
There are other ways to get exposure besides bullion, of course, and that includes producers and explorers of the metal. But it's important to get the right