Gold Investment

Al Rajhi Bank, the world's largest Islamic bank move a step further by introducing new schemes, Al Rajhi Gold-i, which allows customers to invest in physical gold, which is more safe and secure.Bank retail director, said Sabry Ghouse, gold investments have proven to thousands of years ago as an investment medium and have an important role to protect the real value of money, especially when the economy is uncertain.

They are offering real value of the transaction of the type of 999.9 pure gold from Switzerland to the customer will benefit from real investment to cover minimal risk for a variety of property and possession of a single investment."In addition, this scheme has advantages such as trading cash conversion, secure storage and Takaful protection for all the gold is stored," he said at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur yesterday (27th day of April 2011).

The customers were given two options to choose the gold in the form of wafers or cubes of each of which has a weight of 5 grams to 1 kilogram than the price set depending on the current market. Sabry said, according to statistics released at the World Gold Association last year, ornaments and jewelry affect the demand for physical gold coins in the market as well as indirectly witnessed investors from several countries such as China and India making it safe for the long term.

Actually, gold has become a matter of investment in the first-adjusted price in 1717 by Sir Isaac Newton. In 1971, gold is no longer bound to the United States and sold freely. On October 6, 2009 recently, the price of gold in world gold markets surged to U.S. $ 24.60 to $ 1,041.80 per oz per day. Six months after that the lowest price of gold was U.S. $ 868.70 and a year later the price was U.S. $ 709.50 per oz. Within a year the gold price rose by 46.8 percent. On year 2005, its lowest price was U.S. $ 412.10, an increase of 152.8 percent. An average person who invests long-term average returns in the past five years (2005 -2009) was 30.5 per cent. It was an investment in the stock market itself can not make profit out of it.

Not many are aware of the returns from investment in gold. A good way to invest is to buy gold coins or gold jewelry pieces apart.For the record, an ounce is equivalent to 31.10 grams. However the sales price of gold in different financial institutions because of the price of gold is not something that is manageable.Many services such as insurance costs are taken into account by these institutions. Coins and gold pieces can be obtained at banks such as Maybank (you can take the gold or keep pass book) and OUB.There is also the use of the pass book as Public Bank (not on physical gold but on paper only), but customers do not store and saw the gold price is actually only the amount and time of purchase are included in the pass book.

 

There are currently buying and selling can also be done with the Gold Co-operative ethics has branches throughout the country. The increase in gold prices are usually subject to three main factors. First depreciation of the dollar. When the U.S. dollar price of gold fell to rise, the dollar will stabilize the price of gold fell.Gold acts as a hedge against the U.S. dollar. At this time the U.S. dollar is weak and shows signs of becoming more vulnerable. There are also rumors of West Asian countries and China will use other currencies besides the U.S. dollar due to the weak U.S. dollar is. Although the shift to a currency other than U.S. dollars (euros or currencies such as the new form) is not something that can happen immediately, the news was enough to propel the world gold price.

The second factor is the price of gold will rise in line with inflation. When inflation rises, the price of gold will rise in line with inflation.In the countries of the world, including major economic powers of the economic stimulus package to inject large as U.S. $ 787 billion U.S. stimulus package effect is an increase in inflation.
United only tasted his money freely, and this will cause the value of his money will go down.

 
The third factor is the increase in oil prices will cause the price of gold rose in tandem with the rising cost of production and delivery of goods, if oil prices fall. Gold is also expected to be down, but at a minimum.There are several ways to invest in gold and are described fully in www.gold.org / value. People can invest directly by buying gold bullion (bars), gold coins, gold dinar, or indirectly through gold futures, options, warrants or certificates of investment.

One of the most popular and fastest growing in securities exchanges around the world are known as the Gold ETF (Exchange Traded Fund).Among the world's stock offering is Gold ETF in Australia, the United States, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Switzerland, Singapore, Turkey and United Kingdom. ETF is in the form of securities and 100 percent backed by physical gold.

 
This investment is growing rapidly to 38 percent of the identified investment consists of securities of this form. Here, there is Gold bullion is traded on our exchange.Looking at the current unrest, especially  position of United States economic crisis caused by the U.S., and spreading them around the world. People definitely look for a safer investment form of price volatility.

Today,  There are a lot of gold broker that you can buy in the market such as Serambi Emas, Habib Jewel, Public gold and so fort. You can buy it physical and keep it, when the price up you sell it or you can use the Ar Rahnu system to earn money. Gold investment is a long term investment. Try to remember that!!