SPDR® Gold Shares
SPDR Gold Shares tracks the price of physical gold bullion. This fund provides investors with a simple way to gain exposure to gold price movements globally.
See below how EuroFolio members build portfolios around GLD, and which ETFs they most commonly pair with it.
In the top-rated portfolios on EuroFolio, GLD is consistently paired with broad equity indices like CSPX and SPUS alongside long-term bond instruments such as DTLA or SPSK. These portfolios typically allocate 10 to 15 percent of their total capital to gold, positioning the metal as a volatility dampener that offsets the aggressive growth profiles of US and international equities. By blending these assets, investors aim to mitigate the impact of equity market drawdowns while maintaining exposure to long-term capital appreciation, as evidenced by the relatively low volatility profiles of the Global Barbell strategies.
The patterns across these portfolios suggest that EuroFolio members view GLD primarily as a stabilizing anchor within a multi-asset framework rather than a speculative play. User-r2wv47 demonstrates this by maintaining a steady 15 percent allocation to GLD across various iterations of the Global Barbell strategy, which has successfully achieved Sharpe ratios exceeding 1.0. While the Sharia-compliant Robo advisor 1 portfolio shows that higher gold exposure does not always prevent significant drawdowns when equity concentration is high, the consistent inclusion of GLD across all these top-performing models highlights its role as a standard hedge for balancing risk-adjusted returns in diversified ETF portfolios.
AI analysis of below portfolio data from our community only · Not investment advice · Mar 2026