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mathematical mistake in the article What's so good about a gold fund?
by s srinivas on Mar 05, 2005 10:20 PM Permalink | Hide replies
05 03 2005
Dear Mr Jeremy Your article is very interesting and explained very nicely for a layman to understand. In the write up How the unit price is determined the fund must have physical gold worth 100 ounces is wrong, it should be 1000 ounces.
Since 10,000 units multiplied by 1/10 ounce = 1000 ounces,as one unit = 1/10 ounce as indicated by you.
Abroad, the practice with gold traded funds is that one unit represents one-tenth of an ounce of physical gold.
1 ounce 28.35 grammes 1 troy ounce 31.1035 grammes So if there are investors in the fund who hold 10,000 units, that means the fund must have physical gold worth 100 ounces.
yours sincerely
S Srinivas
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