Commodities Analysis by Michael Ashton covering: XAU/USD, Gold Futures. Read Michael Ashton's latest article on Investing.com
In general, gold behaves like a very-long-duration inflation-linked bond with a zero coupon. This makes sense – if we were to issue a bond that, in exchange for the current gold price, offered to pay the bearer no coupons but redeem for 1 ounce of gold in 100 years, it would have the same payoff as holding one ounce of physical gold for 100 years.
Unfortunately, relative value observations like this have no mechanism to force them to close, so we cannot recommend selling gold and buying TIPS as an arbitrage. However, we are comfortable saying that investors could create a significantly better-performing commodity index by leaving gold out of the index, or by replacing gold in the index with a TIPS bond.
So I am back to thinking that this is a broader clientele effect, of people who responded to the biggest spike in inflation in 40 years by buying an asset that historically has sort of a meh history of protecting against inflation over short or medium periods, and a much clearer history of large yield sensitivity.
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