Fund index
GLD
13 articles on this site analyse GLD — 3 of them head-on.
Not measurable from filings
GLD is structured as a unit investment trust or commodity trust rather than a registered investment company, so it does not file Form N-PORT and its holdings cannot be measured the way the rest of the concentration table is. Saying so is more useful than quietly leaving it out.
Most often compared against
3Measures applied to it
8All articles
13-
Absolute Momentum as a Risk Switch: What Time-Series Trend Following Does That Buy-and-Hold Can't
Absolute (time-series) momentum uses an asset's own past return as a binary risk switch: hold when the trend is positive, step aside when it turns negative....
-
Correlation Regimes: Why Diversification Fails Exactly When You Need It Most
Correlation is not a constant you can plug into a portfolio model — it is state-dependent, and it tends to rise toward one precisely during the sell-offs...
-
Bitcoin vs Gold: IBIT vs GLD as a Portfolio Hedge — What the Correlation Data Says
Gold has a multi-decade record of low-to-negative correlation with equities in stress; Bitcoin's correlation with risk assets has repeatedly risen in...
-
The Mulden Hybrid Portfolio Framework: Quarterly Review (Q2 2026)
Across the 5-year window ending Q2 2026, the framework's diversifiers (gold) and growth tilt (QQQM) carried the return, while the bond sleeve (BND)...
-
DBMF Deep Dive: How AI-Managed Futures Pick Trends Without Forecasting
DBMF doesn't forecast markets. It reverse-engineers the factor positioning of the top managed-futures hedge funds from their reported returns and replicates...
-
GLD vs. DBMF: Gold vs. AI-Managed Managed Futures (Trend Following)
GLD compounded at roughly 20.0% per year over the past five years; DBMF at 8.5%. Reading that gap as "gold won" misunderstands what DBMF is built to do....
-
The "All-Weather" AI Portfolio: Combining Diversification with Predictive Power
Dalio's "all-weather" idea is sound on its merits — risk-balanced exposure across four macro environments — and is implementable today with five or six...
-
SGOV vs Gold ETFs: Two Defenses That Hedge Different Risks
SGOV and gold ETFs both get labelled "defensive," but they hedge different risks. SGOV defends against equity drawdowns by holding T-bill principal stable...
-
Gold vs Bonds in 2026: Two Different Hedges, Two Different Risks
Gold and bonds get grouped as "safe havens", but they hedge different risks — real rates and fiat credibility for gold; nominal yields and growth...
-
SGOV and Gold in a 4.5% World: Rethinking the Defensive Sleeve for 2026
With SGOV's distribution yield at 3.9% and the 10-year Treasury at 4.47% (FRED, asof 2026-05-14), the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding gold is...
-
Is It Better to Buy Gold ETF or Physical Gold in 2026? (Silver ETF vs Physical Silver Explained)
Gold ETFs (GLD, IAU, GLDM) and physical bullion are not interchangeable substitutes — they hedge different layers of risk, with different costs and a...
-
Precious Metals ETF Guide 2026: Gold, Silver, and Long-Term Portfolio Strategy
A gold sleeve of roughly 5–10% has support in the long-horizon diversification literature; silver does not have the same case and behaves more like a...
-
Gold vs Silver in 2026: Which Is the Better Long-Term Investment? (GLD vs SLV ETF Comparison)
Over the trailing 5 years, GLD returned 19.4% CAGR with 17.9% volatility; SLV returned 21.9% CAGR with 36.0% volatility — silver earned roughly 2.5...
Mentions are detected across the full text of every article, so an appearance may be a passing comparison rather than the subject. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell — see the disclaimer.