Juan Carlos Artigas

The gold market has seen a significant rise in COMEX gold inventories, along with a widening of the spread between futures and spot prices, sparked by tariff uncertainty. This, combined with reports of falling inventories in London, has fuelled speculation about stability in the gold market

Gold has reached continuous highs in March and is trading close to US$2,200/oz. While this can be partly explained by a weaker USD, higher risk and momentum, other factors such as ‘technicals’ and OTC activity likely accelerated the move.

Gold finished the year on a high, literally and metaphorically, as the LBMA Gold Price PM reached a new historical record of US$2,078.40/oz on 28 December – the final afternoon auction of 2023.

Investors often ask us if the gold price experiences any seasonal effects. The short answer is that gold tends to do well, on average, in both January and late summer. Reasons behind these effects can be linked to portfolio rebalancing, bond performance and seasonal gold demand.

Many of the investors we talk to feel that gold’s performance should be much stronger considering multi-decade high inflation across the world

Gold surged past US$2,000/oz earlier this week, nearly reaching the previous 2020 record. This time, though, it was driven by continued concerns about the war in Ukraine, swelling commodity prices, and, more generally, the potential implications for the global economy. And while the gold price has come down from the week’s high, it’s still approximately 4% higher month-to-date. Against this backdrop, we are addressing the three questions investors have asked us most frequently in recent days.

We recently hosted a conversation with Institutional Investor and Ned Naylor-Leyland, Jupiter Asset Management’s Head of Gold and Silver, to discuss gold performance in the current rate environment and the broader outlook for 2021.

Listen to the conversation on gold’s performance drivers and its role as a strategic portfolio asset.

Our Head of Research explores recent events, looking at how they have impacted on gold in the short term and the key questions now facing investors moving forward.

This blog explores a common question we have been getting 'how much influence will the US election have on gold demand and its performance?"

Watch this discussion on the role that an allocation to gold can play, the outlook for gold and more.

Last week, I had a great conversation with Matthew McLennan, of First Eagle Investment Management, organized by Institutional Investor about the increasingly relevant role alts are playing in portfolios.

Juan Carlos Artigas, our Head of Research, joins this Institutional Investor forum 'Be Careful What You Wish For - When Volatility Becomes Your Frenemy: Risk, Volatility and Liquidity in Today's Institutional Portfolios'.

The US Federal Reserve (Fed) announced an emergency 50bp rate cut yesterday, bringing the Fed funds rate down to a 1-1.25% range, in response to ongoing concerns about the potential impact of the coronavirus outbreak to the global economy. Treasury bond rates followed suit, with the 10-year note hovering 1% at the time of writing – an all-time historical low