When economic stability in the world is on shaky ground, precious metals are a good investment to safeguard one’s capital. But not everyone wants to acquire and store precious metals in physical form. For this reason, exchange traded commodities, or ETCs for short, offer the opportunity to invest in precious metals and commodities in an uncomplicated way.
In most cases, precious metals ETCs track the spot price and are physically collateralized, eliminating the issuer risk associated with physical ETCs.