{"id":4190,"date":"2023-03-19T12:54:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T12:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fisdomdevel.wpengine.com\/glossary\/gold-etf\/"},"modified":"2023-03-19T12:54:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T12:54:06","slug":"gold-etf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/gold-etf\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold ETF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gold ETF is a form of exchange-traded fund (ETF) which tracks the domestic physical gold price. It is a passive investment based on gold prices representing physical gold. A Gold ETF unit is equal to 1 gram of gold and is backed by high purity physical gold. Gold ETF is a simple investment which can be considered as a combination of equity and gold providing the flexibility and tradebability of stock market investments and the ease of gold investments.<\/p>\n<h2>Features of Gold ETFs<\/h2>\n<p>Features of Gold ETFs are:<\/p>\n<p>a) A demat account is required for investing in Gold ETFs, like for other ETFs and these can be traded easily on exchanges.<br \/>\nb) Gold ETF prices are transparent and the same across the country.<br \/>\nc) Gold ETF is backed by 99.5% pure gold and is secure as it is in paper or demat form.<\/p>\n<h2>Benefits of Gold ETFs<\/h2>\n<p>Benefits of Gold ETFs are:<\/p>\n<p>1. Gold ETFs act as a hedge against inflation and also provide an opportunity for diversification.<br \/>\n2. It is a low cost gold investment as there are no making or storage charges involved.<br \/>\n3. There are no storage costs involved for the investor, unlike physical gold.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold ETF is a form of exchange-traded fund (ETF) which tracks the domestic physical gold price. It is a passive investment based on gold prices representing physical gold. A Gold ETF unit is equal to 1 gram of gold and is backed by high purity physical gold. Gold ETF is a simple investment which can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etfs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}