In an exclusive interview with Gold Investing News, TD Precious Metals Fund managers Ari Levy and Chad Gilfillan explained some characteristics of the portfolio and how it is differentiated within the precious metals fund universe.
Having long been considered a leading investment in the gold-related arena, Van Eck Global has a track record of managing gold investment products dating well back into the last century. The United States based firm features the Van Eck International Investors Gold Fund, which has an inception date of February 10, 1956.
Relative to the total return of funds within its category, Oppenheimer Gold is top quartile in the US, from the Lipper ranking over 1, 3, and 5 years; and finished in the ultra elite second percentile among Morningstar Specialty-Precious Metal fund over a one year period.
Global gold mine production has increased by 3 percent over the third quarter of this year. This top 10 list of gold mining companies showcases the global rise in gold.
Although Chile is known first as a copper producer, gold mining in Chile dates back to the end of the sixteenth century when a series of rich alluvial deposits produced an estimated 1 metric tonne to 2 metric tonnes of gold annually. The momentum of the present gold rush has been enhanced through the discovery of a series of sub-volcanic, mainly epithermal, gold deposits mostly located at elevations of more than 4,000 m in the Andean Cordillera.
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