Investors can also look at the other two physically-backed gold ETFs: ETF Securities Swiss Gold Shares (NYSEArca: SGOL) and ETFS Physical Asian Gold Shares (NYSEArca: AGOL). SGOL holds bullion in Zurich vaults and AGOL stores its gold in Singapore. SGOL is up 3.9% over the past week and up 9.8% in the last month. AGOL added 3.5% in the last week and rose 9.0% over the past month. [Beyond GLD: Gold ETFs to Play the Breakout]
Additionally, the PowerShares DB Gold Fund (NYSEArca: DGL) tracks gold futures contracts. DGL gained 3.9% over the past week and 9.9% in the last month.
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Max Chen contributed to this article.
Full disclosure: Tom Lydon’s clients own GLD.