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Forget GLD: GLDM Tracks the Exact Same Bullion at One Quarter the Annual Cost
Key takeaways
- IAU offers a middle-ground 0.25% fee, while SGOL stores gold in Switzerland at 0.17%, giving investors jurisdictional diversification beyond HSBC London.
- Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and SPDR Gold Trust didn t make the cut.
- A 58-year-old investor with $100,000 parked in SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:GLD) as a crisis hedge is paying roughly $300 more per year than necessary for the exact same bars of bullion.
Forget GLD: GLDM Tracks the Exact Same Bullion at One Quarter the Annual Cost ayala_studio / E+ via Getty Images David Beren Sun, June 7, 2026 at 1:18 AM GMT+7 4 min read GLD GC=F NVDA IAU SGOL Quick Read GLD and GLDM hold identical bullion in the same vault, but GLD s 0.40% fee versus GLDM s 0.10% costs buy-and-hold investors tens of thousands.
IAU offers a middle-ground 0.25% fee, while SGOL stores gold in Switzerland at 0.17%, giving investors jurisdictional diversification beyond HSBC London.
Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and SPDR Gold Trust didn t make the cut. Grab the names FREE today.
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