Introducing the Amundi Physical Gold ETC Fund

The newest Irish Life fund solution for your clients, the Amundi Physical Gold ETC Fund, is now available.

The Amundi Physical Gold Fund offers investors exposure to the movements of the gold spot price and provides a liquid, flexible and cost efficient way to invest in physical gold. 

Why invest in gold?

In the context of a portfolio, gold can offer investors three core benefits:

• An additional source of diversification and long-term performance;
• A potential hedge during uncertain market condition; and
• Low correlation to other asset classes.

Traditionally, gold has been seen as a safe haven against inflation and economic downturns. When investors lose confidence in capital markets, or big geopolitical problems loom, demand for gold as a safe haven has often increased sharply. And as the amount of physical gold in the world is limited, this scarcity helps gold retain its value over the long term.

Importantly for investors, in a portfolio context, gold has a low to negative correlation with other major asset classes during many market phases, meaning it typically provides effective diversification and can reduce overall risk. In general, however, gold can help to reduce portfolio volatility because the factors that affect the returns of most asset classes - both at macro and micro level - tend not to have a significant impact on the price of gold. As a portfolio component, gold may offer the benefit of both risk reduction and wealth accumulation.

A Better Decision

Irish Life is committed to delivering the best range of investment choices for brokers and your clients. We recognise that your clients have varied needs and preferences and our objective is to match our offerings with those needs, helping you build resilient portfolios - we think the Amundi Gold Fund may be a good addition to help you and your clients with that.