Commodities on the underlying LBMA Gold Price (PM), physical replication, accumulating. Share class in pounds sterling (GBP), currency-hedged.
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Invesco Physical Gold GBP Hedged ETC tracks the issuer-declared underlying: LBMA Gold Price (PM). In plain words: it tracks the market price of gold (the London fixing is the reference), backed by physical metal held in custody. Mind the share class: this is the version hedged to GBP — returns reflect the index plus the effect (and cost) of hedging into that currency. The declared annual cost (TER) is 0.12%, plus 0.15% in transaction costs estimated by the issuer in the KID. Replication is physical replication (it buys the index constituents). The fund has assets of about 457 million euro, was launched on 9 July 2020 and is domiciled in Ireland.
Every month we snapshot the register and the holdings and keep the picture. The history shows how the fund changes, not only what it is today.
| From the peak of | Trough | Depth | Back to break-even | Days underwater |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Jan 2026 | 16 Jul 2026 | -26.70% | ongoing | 263 |
| 06 Aug 2020 | 03 Nov 2022 | -23.87% | 28 Mar 2024 | 1,330 |
| 20 Oct 2025 | 28 Oct 2025 | -8.08% | 12 Dec 2025 | 53 |
| 30 Oct 2024 | 14 Nov 2024 | -7.67% | 30 Jan 2025 | 92 |
| 22 Apr 2025 | 16 May 2025 | -7.41% | 01 Sept 2025 | 132 |
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 13.9 | 4.7 | -11.9 | -0.1 | -1.5 | -11.6 | -0.1 | 13.3 | -8.5 | -0.8 | -6.2 | ||
| 2025 | 7.8 | 0.7 | 9.8 | 5.8 | -0.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 3.9 | 11.4 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 65.7 |
| 2024 | -1.3 | -0.3 | 8.0 | 4.1 | 1.7 | -0.8 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 4.6 | 3.9 | -3.1 | -1.6 | 24.3 |
| 2023 | 5.8 | -5.4 | 8.3 | -0.0 | -1.1 | -2.8 | 2.9 | -1.5 | -3.8 | 6.7 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | -0.7 | 6.4 | 1.7 | -1.7 | -3.9 | -1.3 | -3.7 | -2.3 | -2.8 | -2.2 | 6.7 | 3.2 | -1.4 |
| 2021 | -1.4 | -6.6 | -3.1 | 4.4 | 7.4 | -7.4 | 3.5 | -0.7 | -4.1 | 1.4 | 1.9 | -0.0 | -5.5 |
| 2020 | -0.6 | -3.8 | -0.5 | -6.5 | 7.0 | 3.1(since launch) |
We do not publish a tracking difference for this share class — and it is not an oversight.
SGLS is hedged to GBP; the index the issuer places next to it in its documents is the unhedged, foreign-currency version. Subtracting one from the other does not measure replication quality: it measures the exchange rate. In a year when the currency moves 5%, “the TD” would come out near 5 points — a plausible-looking number, with decimals, and wrong.
Other sites publish that number. We would rather show one figure less than one figure wrong: the TD will return here the day we have the GBP-hedged index series, which the issuer does not publish today.
| Last year | Last 3 years | Last 5 years | Full history | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volatility (ann.) | 27.76% | 20.94% | 19.10% | 18.75% |
| Max drawdown | -26.15% | -26.15% | -26.15% | -26.15% |
| Sharpe | -0.00 | 1.14 | 0.78 | 0.67 |
| Sortino | -0.00 | 1.61 | 1.11 | 0.94 |
| Exchange | Ticker | Exchange source |
|---|---|---|
| London Stock Exchange | SGLSfrom the issuer | issuer’s product list (exchange outside the FIRDS perimeter) |