Christian Magoon: Physical gold ETFs are unique from the 20 different gold ETF and ETN products in the market today because they actually hold bars of gold in vaults. These gold bars back the shares of the ETF, which seek to precisely track the price of gold less fees and expenses. Read more…

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Christian Magoon: DUST is the best gold ETF by far in 2012. Read more…

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Christian Magoon:  The best gold ETF in 2012 continues to be the iShares Gold ETF (NYSEARCA:IAU). It has outperformed the much larger and more expensive SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:GLD), by almost 20bps year to date. Here’s the performance grid from GoldETFs.biz illustrating year to date Read more…

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