Gold Investment Always Beneficial
Gold Investing November 6th, 2009
CONDITIONS financial markets is still uncertain to make smart people should manage the funds owned. Almost the last year, the risk of investing in the financial sector increased sharply.
The collapse of capital markets makes investors are now returning after commodity. In addition to crude oil (crude oil), commodity investors are being hunted gold. In a country where society has advanced, this condition makes the passion of all kinds of gold investments, including derivative transactions.
Unlike the modern investment products like mutual funds, stocks, and bonds the newly recognized recently, the gold into investment goods from time to time. Gold can be used as part of the investment portfolio investors, some investment diversification alternatives.
One of the benefits of gold, the price is always moving to keep pace with inflation. Despite decades of stored, remain the same gold value. In contrast to save funds in the form of cash, the value of money will decrease inflation consumed when stored in a long time.
“The market is still waiting for the moment, if the USD weakens the price of gold will rise. Speculation on commodities, oil began to fall, and now investors hunt for gold,” said Country Manager, World Gold Council (WGC) Indonesia Leo Hadi Loe.
Although gold prices often fluctuate, from time to time tend to continue to increase. For example last week, gold prices had dropped to levels Rp230.000 per gram, but within a week managed to rebound to a position Rp266.000 per gram.
Compared to other commodities investment, gold has many advantages. Among them, gold is the type of investment whose value is very stable, liquid, and a real safe, and can be managed alone. Thus, gold is very worthy to be a part of the investment portfolio.
According to Leo, the investment in this highly profitable commodity. Especially in the condition of the sluggish world economy. “There is support levels that make the price of gold will not come down,” he said.
Gold investing so easy to make anybody could be a gold investor. Investment can be done by housewives, professionals, businessmen, market actors or businesses as an alternative investment.
Meanwhile, President Director of PT Kurnia Jaya Danial Franky revealed, opening the gold business quite profitable. In addition to profit from the difference between the selling price and the cost of making jewelry, business circles also benefit from the gold price hikes. “Also quite illiquid. Stock is redeemable if there could be a lack of funds,” he explained.
However, keep in mind for beginners who want to start a business must be aware of the gold circulation of false gold. “A lot of fraud from suppliers with the mode of copper coated with gold. So, as if it is not pure gold,” he said.
He explained, gold-copper layer is normally supplied by the domestic gold craftsmen. “Obviously it hurt businesses and consumers,” he said.
According to him, investing in gold bullion far more profitable than gold jewelry. Because every purchase of gold bars did not get any additional costs. Likewise, when to sell.
“Other more if invested in jewelry will be charged the amount of jewelry making Rp35.000-Rp50.000 per gram. Whereas when we sold it, it does not count the cost of missing alias,” he said.
He said another advantage of investing in gold bullion, the investor is easy to sell anytime soon. In fact, gold investments can be used as collateral on the mortgage so that investors do not have to sell gold they own.
He explains, one of the benefits of commodity investing is gold does not need to worry investors affected by inflation. When the exchange rate continued to decline, the value of gold will remain. Because it is not wrong if gold prices continue to soar up.
“Gold will continue to have high value and still be bought,” called Franky. In Indonesia, Surabaya well known as industrial centers and the largest gold trading. Nearly 70 percent of the gold trade market and factories producing gold in Indonesia in Surabaya.
Surabaya gold plant was categorized world class. This makes a lot of foreign investors interested in opening a gold factory. As the center of gold jewelry, Surabaya has a lot of human resources (HR) are experts in their fields and rich raw materials. In addition, investors are also much easier to find equipment to process the gold, as well as maintenance and the service
