Investing in gold is considered one of the oldest methods of financial investments. It is no secret that for a long time, gold symbolized wealth and has always had a high price for all peoples. Investment in gold is one of the most reliable ways to save money, because investing in gold is not affected by the global financial crisis, and the need for it never falls.

Investing in gold: investment methods
To invest in gold, as the precious metal in the main, by using the 4 main ways.

First, investment in gold bullion

Popular, but not the best way to invest money in gold, as the price of bullion is required to include the VAT that the sale will not be reimbursed. In most cases, people buy gold bullion from twenty to one hundred grams, and stored in the home, but in the future, interest in this type of investment began to decline.

Keeping house bars, you have to treat them very carefully, every little scratch considerably reduce its cost.

There is only one way to escape the tax - is deposited in bank ingot separate cell with a design metal account, but in this case will have to pay rent the safe.

Second, invest in gold coins

This method of investing more interesting and popular. Species of gold coins, there are many great, but in Russia a little more than ten. Nowadays, many banks are engaged in transactions with coins, transforming them into cash.

Bullion coins are different from the design collection, chased quality, accurate processing.

Russian is the main investment coins "Golden ducat", and are very popular these coins as "Zodiac," "George" and others. Among the foreign gold coins are known: the American "Golden Eagle", "Golden Buffalo" Canadian "Golden Maple Leaf "and others.

Coin investing also has its negative aspects are:

Bank limit to take the coins back, that is, the bank has the ability to only sell gold coins, but do not take them back.
The impressive difference between the rates of sale and purchase of coins, in addition, the value of coins included the commission of the bank, which may have a high percentage.
The third option: CHI - unallocated metal accounts

Another expedient way to invest in gold. Such an account allows you to put a like amount of money and gold bars, and its cost will be tied to the price of gold.

Generally, there are two types of bank accounts - is urgent and demand, with unimpressive 1.5 percent and 2%.

Professional investors are advised to be careful when choosing a bank, which are planning to open by the MLA, as the law on deposit insurance on such an account is not valid. But there are pluses, at the opening of such accounts - no need to pay VAT. With these accounts, you can invest not only in gold but also in other precious metals.

The fourth option is trading at the stock exchange

To invest in gold through the stock exchange, there are several ways:

You can buy shares of gold mining companies;
make investments in derivatives.
Low-profit method is considered to be the purchase of collector coins and jewelry (it profitable to invest in jewelry see. Here), because their cost is much higher than the cost of precious metals, which are included in their composition.

Professional investors are advised to balance investing in gold 10-15%, maximum 30% of the investment, then you are guaranteed to gain itself a balanced investment portfolio with the lowest risk and high income.