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  • bee October 2016
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After Huge Gains, Even Gold Fund Managers Advise Caution

TedTed
in Fund Discussions
FYI: Gold has gone gangbusters this year, rising with jitters about everything from a weak global economy to the possibility of a President Trump.

After gold's best first-half of a year since 1980, gold-related funds are piled atop the leaderboard for returns. The average fund that invests in stocks of gold miners has returned more than 70 percent in 2016, for example. Such glittering performance has drawn even more investors, and nearly $21 billion has poured into funds that buy either gold bars or the stocks of mining companies in the year to date through August, according to Morningstar. In 2015 investors pulled $2 billion out of those same funds.
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Ted
http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/5f021dd9651a459b9faeae1b26aa89ed/after-huge-gains-even-gold-fund-managers-advise-caution

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  • beebee
    edited October 2016
    Looking at a 5 year chart visually tells a cautionary story as well:

    A 72% 1 year investment gain in GDXJ...
    merely breaks even for a 3 year investment in GDXJ...
    and is little consolation to a 67% loss to a 5 year investment in GDXJ:

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