Get into Gold Millennial | The Royal Mint

Trusted for centuries, gold has the potential to perform well during times of boom and bust. Whether you’re looking to trade for short-term gains, or saving up for an experience of a lifetime, investing in gold with The Royal Mint could help you achieve your goals.

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Gold Performance

When it comes to investing, spreading risk could help to avoid overexposure to any one particular asset class. Many experts, including the World Gold Council suggest putting around 2–10% of your portfolio into a safe haven investment such as gold.

The chart below compares the annual percentage growth of gold over the past twenty years against cash, property, stocks, bonds and gilts.

Source: World Gold Council, LBMA, Trading Economics & Acadata.

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What Could a Gold Investment Look Like?

Using our historic price calculator will allow you to reflect on the gold market, enabling you to gain a better understanding of how the price varies over time. It can be used to indicate the approximate value of gold investments or the potential long-term growth of gold bullion products.

How much would you like to invest?

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Please note that this feature does not provide investment advice. The investment calculator is based on historical GBP gold price data and is provided for information purposes only. *Potential return calculations are based on a growth rate of 2%, which is the average gold price performance since 1999.

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