How gold investments have changed in the past 30 years

ETF (Exchange Traded Funds)

It is an investment fund dealing in bonds, commodities etc. and gets traded on the stock market like normal stocks. A gold-backed ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that aims to track the domestic physical gold price. Gold-backed ETFs are financial instruments comprised of units backed by physical gold which may be in paper or dematerialised form. One gold-backed ETF unit is typically backed by 1 gram of physical gold.