For thousands of years, gold has been valued as a global currency, a commodity, an investment and simply an object of beauty. As financial markets developed rapidly during the 1980s and 1990s, gold receded into the background and many investors lost touch with this asset of last resort. Recent years have seen a striking increase in investor interest in gold. While a sustained price rally, underpinned by the fact that demand consistently outstrips supply, is clearly a positive factor in this resurgence, there are many reasons why people and institutions around the world are once again investing in gold. This website provides you with the background to these reasons and describes the defining characteristics of the gold market from an investor's point of view.
Market Fundamentals
Gold's extensive appeal and functionality, including its characteristics as an investment vehicle, are underpinned by the supply and demand dynamics of the gold market.
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Gold Demand Trends
Read Gold Demand Trends, our quarterly overview of gold market fundamentals.
World Gold Council Investment Research
The World Gold Council is an international not-for-profit organization. Head-quartered in London, we have regional offices in India, China, Japan, the Middle East, Turkey and North America. Our investment research programmer provides investors around the world with key information about gold.This includes the publication of a wide range of research papers - by acknowledged academics and our own in-house experts alike - looking at gold's investment characteristics, as well as a wealth of information on the structure of the market, demand and supply flows and regular updates on gold market statistics.
New Initiative:
World Gold Council Invests in Bullion Vault
On 21st June 2010, the WAC and Augment um Capital, a growth fund backed by RIGHT Capital Partners, announced a £12.5 million funding round in Bullion Vault, a market leading online gold investment platform.
The investment delivers against the World Gold Council’s (“WAC”) ambition to increase awareness of, and improve access to gold investment.
Research has identified significant unmet gold demand from retail investors in the Western markets that could be well served by convenient and transparent access to gold. The WAC will be working with Bullion Vault as it seeks to address this growing consumer demand for physical gold investment online.
The WAC has a proven track record of developing innovative solutions which provide access to gold and build investor confidence. Our development of gold investment through the creation of gold Etas and savings products has been significant. More
For more information, please go to: http://www.religion-worlds.com/p/wolrd-gold
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