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ETF “Costs and Liabilities” Sees Investors Migrating to Physical Allocated Gold



-- Posted Tuesday, 16 October 2012 | | Disqus

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,737.50, EUR 1,337.36, and GBP 1,080.40 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD
1,747.25, EUR 1,347.56 and GBP 1,086.87 per ounce.

 

XAU/EUR Currency 1 Year – (Bloomberg)

Gold dropped $18.00 or 1.03% in New York yesterday and closed at $1,736.40. Silver fell to a low of $32.62 and finished with a loss of 2.36%.

Gold edged up on Tuesday, but its appeal was diminished by positive US retail sales data.

In September, The US Federal Reserve committed to buying $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities on a monthly basis only as long as it is needed to improve the labour market.

The markets are also waiting on a firm commitment from Spain as to when and how much financial aid it requires as the eurozone crisis lingers on.

Physical buying in Singapore saw premiums jump 80 cent per oz above London prices for high quality gold bars.

XAU/EUR Currency Daily – (Bloomberg)

The head of industrial and precious metals trading at Barclays, Cengiz Belentepe, has told Bloomberg that investors are selling their investments in gold ETFs and opting for the safety of allocated physical gold.

According to Barclays, gold holdings in ETF products are growing at a slower pace than in 2004-2009 because some investors may be moving to physical bullion after initial purchases of an ETF.

Gold holdings in ETPs have increased 9.6% this year to a record 2,582.98 metric tons, data compiled by Bloomberg show. They rose 7.9% last year and 19% in 2010. Growth in gold ETP holdings has exceeded 35% from 2004 to 2009, the data show.

Barlcay’s Belentepe said “the question is whether the pace of buying has slowed, or whether the people have become a bit more sophisticated in recognizing the costs and liabilities.”

 ‘‘We’ve seen instances of people coming in, whose first step is to buy an ETF, second step is to get educated on how the market works, third step -- I’m going to shift this in direct gold purchase and storage, fourth step -- let me allocate this metal into these locations. It’s the early step they are all migrating through, expressing the same view but in different ways.”

One would have to be cautious here as Barclays have been aggressively marketing their new precious metal storage solution. Barclays may be attempting to capture some of the large capital flows that have flowed into the ETFs in recent months and continue to do so.

Gold ETFs has a very significant degree of counter party risk to the many counter parties such as the trustees and the many custodians and sub custodians. The ETF is a second rate form of paper gold in which one becomes an unsecured creditor of a trust rather than the outright, beneficial owner of allocated and segregated coins and bars.

Some of the largest hedge funds managers and most respected investors in the world such as Marc Faber, David Einhorn and Kyle Bass have all warned regarding the ETF and spoke of how they favour physical bullion.

Indeed, Bass has warned of the risk of a COMEX default due to the exchange not being able to fulfil its delivery commitments should even a small fraction of futures buyers decide to take delivery,

 More sophisticated, knowledgeable and risk averse investors will continue to opt for taking delivery or storing allocated gold coins and bars.

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