#ValueWaliDiwali: Here’s To a New Way of Buying Gold

Buying Gold during Diwali has been part of our culture for generations in India. Gold has been considered as a symbol of prosperity, probably because we have understood its potential for upholding long-term value. During this Diwali, buying Gold does not have to be an expensive affair. It’s time to merge the old tradition with the new way of buying Gold; invest in low cost and innovative ways: Gold ETFs or SIP in Gold Fund of Funds.

New Normal, Old Advice

So far in this crisis, Gold has played an important role as a source of liquidity. For those who held gold to diversify their portfolios, it limited the downside risk that we all saw during the Covid-19 triggered equity markets crash in Mar 2020.

It’s never too late. The negative correlation that occurs generally between Equity and Gold & regular rebalancing of your portfolio can minimize the impact of losses driven by falling markets.

Illustration 1: Traditional vs New Way of Investing in Gold

Price Efficiency

For illustrative purposes, let’s consider gold prices are at Rs 45,000 per 10-gram. If you were to add making charges at 10% and GST and also the maintenance charges in term of locker charges, this would invariably increase the cost of buying gold.

Illustration 2: Gold Pricing Markups

For illustrative purposes only.

On the other hand, if you were to invest in a Gold ETF, you would have to pay less than 1% as annual expense ratio. Moreover, it would translate to better price efficiency due to the following reasons:

✔ Gold ETFs transfer benefit of wholesale purchase prices to investors

✔ Benefit of GST credit at the time of selling gold, at the scheme level

✔ Traded close to the market price of physical gold, with a thin difference between buying and selling price

5 Reasons to Invest the New Way

There are several advantages of investing in Gold through Quantum Gold Savings Fund or Quantum Gold Fund ETFs.

Invest in small denominations Purity at 99.5% finesse Invest easy 24X7 online, can be easily liquidated All gold bars tested independently Safely stored in professional accredited vaults

Use the Correction to build your Allocation

From the highs of Rs 57,000 per 10 gramme in August last year, the price of Gold has come down Rs. ₹46110 as of Sept 2021. The correction should not be mistaken for a drop in the long-term potential of Gold. It gives you great buying opportunity to begin allocation or increase your exposure to gold.

In spite of correction, Gold continues to be a preferred asset.

What we need to remember is that all asset classes don't move at the same pace or in the same direction. The way to balance risk and reward in an investment portfolio is to diversify one’s assets. Hence, it becomes important to have an asset allocation strategy by diversifying across asset classes such as equities, debt and gold to generate risk adjusted returns. This is why we have come up our proprietary 12-20-80 asset allocation strategy.

After setting aside money equivalent to 12 months of expenses’ in an emergency corpus with the Quantum Liquid Fund, investors can consider investing 20% of their portfolio to the risk reducing and portfolio diversifying asset of Gold with Quantum Gold Savings Fund or Quantum Gold ETF.

Whereas the balance 80% can be invested in a diversified equity bucket comprising of Quantum Long Term Equity Value Fund, Quantum Equity Fund of Funds and Quantum India ESG Equity Fund.

Please note that the above suggested fund allocation only and is not to be considered as investment advice / recommendation, please seek independent professional advice and arrive at an informed investment decision before making any investments.

This festive season, use the correction to build your gold allocation the new way with the Quantum Gold Savings Fund or Quantum Gold ETFs.

Watch our latest Mega webinar video on Asset Outlook & the Economic View in the Current Market Scenario where Chirag Mehta, Senior Fund Manager, Alternative Investments, give you further insights into how to invest in Gold.

Name of the Scheme & Primary Benchmark	This product is suitable for investors who are seeking*	Risk-o-meter of Scheme
Quantum Liquid Fund An Open Ended Liquid Scheme	• Income over the short term • Investments in debt / money market instruments.	Investors understand that their principal will be at Low Risk
Quantum Gold Fund An Open Ended Scheme Replicating / Tracking Gold	• Long term returns • Investments in physical gold.	Investors understand that their principal will be at Moderately High Risk
Quantum Gold Savings Fund An Open Ended Fund of Fund Scheme Investing in Quantum Gold Fund	• Long term returns • Investments in units of Quantum Gold Fund - Exchange Traded Fund whose underlying investments are in physical gold.	Investors understand that their principal will be at Moderately High Risk
Quantum Equity Fund of Funds An Open Ended Fund of Funds scheme Investing in Open Ended Diversified Equity Schemes of Mutual Funds	• Long term capital appreciation • Investments in portfolio of open-ended diversified equity schemes of mutual funds registered with SEBI whose underlying investments are in equity and equity related securities of diversified companies	Investors understand that their principal will be at Very High Risk
Quantum India ESG Equity Fund An Open ended equity scheme investing in companies following Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) theme	• Long term capital appreciation • Invests in shares of companies that meet Quantum's Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) criteria.	Investors understand that their principal will be at Very High Risk
Quantum Long Term Equity Value Fund An Open Ended Equity Scheme following a Value Investment Strategy	• Long term capital appreciation • Invests primarily in equity and equity related securities of companies in S&P BSE 200 index.	Investors understand that their principal will be at Moderate Risk

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