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  • Just One ETF: Safe-Haven Concerns Favor Gold Producers, Inflation or Not [View article]
    One disadvantage of buying the miners vs a straight gold ETF is that the miners may be negatively leveraged to energy prices, as that is one of the main costs of extraction. So if inflation leads to rising prices for oil and other forms of energy, you might find that you have less leverage with the miners than with a straight gold ETF.

    I'm not absolutely sure about this, but for anyone wanting to check this in more detail here's a transcript search for "gold extraction costs": seekingalpha.com/searc...
    Jul 7 09:20 AM | 6 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • A Complete Guide to Precious Metal ETFs [View article]
    Since this article was written, a new gold ETF with some interesting differences vs. (GLD), (IAU), (UBG) and (DGL) was issued - (SGOL).
    Nov 16 04:54 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • A Complete Guide to Precious Metal ETFs [View article]
    CEF trades on US exchanges, even though it's a Canadian fund. It's a closed-end fund, not an ETF.


    On Jun 01 05:13 PM ETF Grind wrote:

    > I would put it in, but I don't think we're allowed to discuss non-us
    > funds on SA.
    >
    > I tried to advocate the XFN too, but that didn't go though.
    Nov 16 04:51 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • The Complete List of Commodity ETFs and ETNs [View article]
    See also: Commodity ETFs and ETNs seekingalpha.com/artic...
    Nov 16 04:45 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • 700 ETFs and Counting: A Bird's-eye View [View article]
    I really enjoyed this article.
    May 26 02:52 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
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