This case is used in Darden's second year optional, Financial Institutions and Capital Markets, and would work nicely in courses -traded commodities funds. A teaching note for this particular case is pending publication. At the conclusion of May 2012, Aram Shishmanian, CEO of the World Gold Council (WGC) was contemplating choices to boost gold as an investment asset.
The WGC was the sponsor for SPDR Gold Shares, which was started in 2004 and had become the most successful commodity-based exchange-traded fund. This had surpassed expectations, but allocations to gold stayed little among U.S. long term institutional investors. There would additionally an anticipated shift of wealth to nations such as China and India in the forthcoming decade. Shishmanian was contemplating which gold investment vehicles would be best for the WGC to promote in the USA and other markets going forward.
The Market for Gold SPDR Gold Shares and Beyondcase study solution
PUBLICATION DATE: December 20, 2012 PRODUCT #: UV6706-HCB-ENG
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