Sprott Asset Management, the Denver, CO based asset manager known for its skills in precious metals investment, recently rolled out its second gold miner exchange-traded fund after the first product raked in more than $180 million following its launch last year. The newly launched Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF (SGDJ) follows a factors based strategy and invests in smaller cap …
New ETFs On The Block: Sprott Gold Miners ETF (SGDM)
Gold-focused funds experienced a turbulent 2013 after Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke announced the end of asset purchases in May. Gold miners were no exception, and many funds lost 50 percent or more value in the following months. However, 2014 has been a totally different story and many gold miner exchange-traded funds came out on top though volatility in the …
Gold ETF (GLD) Outshines Gold Mining ETF (GDX)
Is there nothing an investor can count on? A long-held gold investing maxim appears to be breaking down. It used to be that you could count on gold-mining stocks to do twice as well as gold itself when the price of the metal was rising. That’s what the WSJ (subscription required) reported in “Oil Prices Take a Bite Out of …