Q: Why is XGD down 14% while ishares global gold hedged EFT up 4.4%?
Also physical gold is up 6.4% over the year. (percentages taken from google finance).

Q: The current market turmoil has made me realize that a certain amount of commodities exposure as an "asset class" should help with portfolio diversification and therefore risk/return profile. Is this thinking correct? What options, if any, are available for the average retail investor to get broad commodity exposure w/o a lot of overhead which you would recommend?

Q: Hello, AEM stock has decreased by about 36% from a year ago, and the gold bullion CGL has decreased by about 8% from a year ago. I know we can’t perfectly correlate these two, but how can you explain such great difference? Thank you,