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  • Gold Prices Will "Explode" When These Investors Start Buying



    By DAVID ZEILER, Associate Editor, Money Morning March 26, 2013

    Until recently, an entire class of investors that control a huge pool of money - more than $27 trillion worldwide - have almost entirely ignored gold.

    But lately, this group has begun to show more interest in the yellow metal, a trend that ultimately will exert massive upward pressure on gold prices.

    We’re talking about pension funds, which typically have had little interest in gold.

    But with more traditional investments like bonds at historic lows, many pension funds aren’t getting the returns they need to fund future obligations.

    And with central banks debasing most major currencies and risking higher inflation, pension fund managers almost have no choice but to consider adding gold.

    It’s already started in Japan, which has about $3.4 trillion in pension funds - second only to the U.S., which has about $20 trillion.

    In response to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s pledge to spur inflation by printing more yen, Japanese hedge fund managers plan to double their gold holdings from about $500 million to $1.1 billion over the next two years, primarily by investing in gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

    Itsuo Toshima, who represented the Tokyo office of World Gold Council for 23 years through 2011 and now advises Japanese pension fund managers, sees gold becoming a standard asset as inflation becomes more of a threat - with major consequences for gold prices.

    “Pension money invested in bullion is “peanuts’ at the moment,” Toshima told Bloomberg News. “If 1% of their total assets shift to the metal, the gold market would explode.”

    How Pension Funds Could Make Gold Prices Soar

    Shayne McGuire, managing director and head of Global Research at the Texas Teacher Retirement System pension fund, estimates that gold only makes up about 0.15% of pension fund portfolios now.

    In his 2010 book, “Hard Money: Taking Gold to a Higher Investment Level,” McGuire argues that it makes sense for pension funds to invest in gold.

    Like the pension fund managers in Japan, McGuire sees gold as a way to diversify a portfolio while increasing returns and gaining some protection against inflation.

    And as more pension fund managers realize this, gold prices can only go up - and up.

    Consider this: According to the World Gold Council, global gold sales reached a record $236 billion in 2012, with purchases by gold-backed ETFs rising 51%. The biggest is the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE ARCA:GLD), with almost $70 billion worth of the yellow metal.


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