Investing in gold ETCs - how to add gold to your portfolio

Investing in gold via exchange-traded commodities is simpler and cheaper than buying bars and coins

Gold coins © Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Gold could be about to go mainstream
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Looking to invest in gold? David Stevenson looks at how you can add it to your portfolio using ETCs over gold bars and coins.

Investors always look for parallel eras in past markets and a favourite idea at the moment is that we are doomed to repeat the 1970s. Some argue that this will mean a new star rises again in the investment firmament: gold, which started 1970 at $41 an ounce and finished the decade at $459. 

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David C. Stevenson
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David Stevenson has been writing the Financial Times Adventurous Investor column for nearly 15 years and is also a regular columnist for Citywire. He writes his own widely read Adventurous Investor SubStack newsletter at davidstevenson.substack.com

David has also had a successful career as a media entrepreneur setting up the big European fintech news and event outfit www.altfi.com as well as www.etfstream.com in the asset management space. 

Before that, he was a founding partner in the Rocket Science Group, a successful corporate comms business. 

David has also written a number of books on investing, funds, ETFs, and stock picking and is currently a non-executive director on a number of stockmarket-listed funds including Gresham House Energy Storage and the Aurora Investment Trust. 

In what remains of his spare time he is a presiding justice on the Southampton magistrates bench.