that my TWO GOLD FUNDS TGLDX & GOLDX are climbing just as FAST as many Exploration stocks .Their charts have a sharp angle up ! with diversification risk minimized ! Many of the Funds are holding the same stocks (Royalties)cash,Bullion ..I figured that out years ago !
The only Fund I wouldent touch is VANGUARD Precious metals ..The reason is some years ago when the move started I was in VGPMX and as soon a Gold took off ,they closed their Fund to NEW investors and would only take SELL ! orders ! WHAT ? That was absurd and against MY INTERESTS .. I suspect they were getting redemptions in the S&P stocks with orders to buy GOLD instead ..The S&P was a Giant business for them so they looked out for themselves first .I quickly sold all I had in their GOLD ? FUND and switched to TOUCQUEVILLE FUND I made 300 % on the switch while their FUND went nowhere for months .I would have lost several hundred thousand. I never forgot that treachery and will never go back to Vanguard.