A “table banging” opportunity to buy gold

Any internet search will reveal a wealth of options now available to retail investors wishing to buy gold, but which one's right for you? Adrian Ash looks at the top three ways to get into gold.

"People rightly buy gold when they see inflation ahead," said William Rees-Mogg at a recent meeting of private investors in the City. With the Bank of England struggling to maintain its inflation target, the current lull in gold prices, says John Reade at UBS in London, could prove a "table-banging opportunity" to buy "decent amounts". But what's the best way to go about it? Type "buy gold" into Google and you'll be met with a huge range of choices. Most have advantages and drawbacks, depending on your aims and concerns. Here are the three options now open to retail investors.

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Adrian has written all things gold related from if it’s worth buying, what the real price of gold should be and what’s the point of gold for MoneyWeek. He has also written for other leading money titles on his gold expertise including Business Insider, Forbes, City A.M, Yahoo Finance and What Investment Magazine. Now Adrian is head of the research desk at BullionVault, a physical market for gold and silver for private investors online.