Gold is booming – but how safe is it for investors, really?

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There has recently been a significant rise in demand for gold from so-called Exchange Traded Funds, investment vehicles that hold an asset such as gold themselves, while investors can buy and sell shares in the fund.

At MNR jewellers a couple of streets away, a salesman agrees: "Demand for gold has increased, definitely," he says.

Zoe Lyons believes that this is the case in Hatton Garden."[People] want a piece of the golden pie," she says, "and they're willing to do that through buying physical gold.

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