What is Gold investment? How to invest in gold? Best gold funds? Everything about gold investment

 Gold in the form of jewellery is not only adorned but also works as a tool to tide over financial emergencies in Indian households. Gold is considered as a form of antique piece which is also passed from generation to generation. And in today's world investment on gold has also become reliable and you can also opt for this as the best option. There are two ways of owing gold- physical and paper.

In physical form you can buy it in say gold coins ,in the form of jewellery etc. And in paper form you can use it as ETFs or sovereign form. Then there are also gold mutual funds which invests in the international gold mining companies.

Investing in gold can be in many forms- 

• Buying the metal itself (jewellery, gold coins,gold biscuits)
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• Gold bullion for individuals take the form of gold bar or coins
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• Gold mutual funds and exchange traded funds that invest in the precious min minmight trade gold in future options.

Pros of investing in gold-

1. Gold is quality hedge against a down market.

2. Gold will still have value if paper currency goes down or inflates 

3. There is always an apparent upside to the value of gold.

Cons of investing in gold-

1. Gold has terrible historical return. Based on historical return, gold is lousy investment.

2. Gold is really worthless if things become very bad. In pro, its stated that gold is quality hedge against down market ,but what if the economy totally sinks off and you have to only survive through goods, at that point you can't have gold to eat.

3. Gold will only earn you money when you're selling it.

If you see the market scenario , then the best options for investing in gold are- 

* Axis gold fund
* Aditya Birla sun Life gold fund
* Canara robeco gold savings fund
* HDFC gold fund
* ICICI pru regular gold savings fund

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