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If you are prepping for the apocalypse you need guns not gold coins.

Gold price is mainly set by people using it to store capital, other precious metals are mainly driven by their industrial usages. Especially platinum.

Bought some of each. Both up 4.5% in a day ... time will tell if this was a good idea.

All the money that is being “invented” right now has to lead to inflation.

What is the difference between these two?

Seem to present themselves as the same thing but don’t have the same historic performance.
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Are all physical gold ETCs much the same or is there any preferred ones?

I can see the attraction of physical gold but storage of any significant amount must be a challenge.

Is that just a timing issue in reality and you face the risk that by the time they are able to liquidate the gold to pay your withdrawal it may have dropped in value?

Is there also a risk that...

Sorry, meant the physical gold. That paragraph reads like there is a risk there maybe a shortfall.

Thanks for the education. I assume the ishares gold etf is notionally 100% collateralised with gold, unlike some other gold etfs.

If I was worried about the zombie apocalypse I’d buy guns not gold.

If you have guns you can help yourself to other people’s gold during the apocalypse.

Am I correct to assume not all gold...

I see. So what would a regulated fund look like and would there be any advantages?

I guess this is the cheapest way to “own” or at least have a stake in physical gold.

So their gold holding matches the find value give or take a bit.

Do you hold the actual gold or use funds?

SWHTF?

Do they actually buy gold when people invest or does the fund just track the price and your investment just gets invested elsewhere by iShares ?