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Roughly 38% of investors with $250,000 or more in investable assets surveyed by asset manager State Street Global Advisors in July and August said they have gold in their portfolios. That's higher than the 20% who claimed to have gold exposure in the spring of 2023.

The average allocation in gold increased substantially too, from 14% in 2023 to 21% in 2024, according to State Street's survey.

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Gold was most popular amongst younger generations , according to State Street. More than 60% of millennials said they were invested in gold compared to 20% of Boomers.

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At retailers like Costco (COST), gold and silver bullion were big sellers online and in-store in the past quarter. After a pullback from gold ETFs earlier this year, retail investors returned by pouring $1.91 billion into them in September alone.

StateStreet manages SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), the oldest and largest gold ETF in the U.S. with assets of nearly $72 billion at close of trading Friday.