Mumbai, May 12 (IANS). According to information given by the National Stock Exchange (NSE) on Monday, gold (gold) became the best performing asset in FY 2025, which gave a tremendous return of 41 percent in terms of US dollars and 33 percent in terms of rupee.
This year, with global uncertainties and changing trends of investment, increased an appeal for safe investment on gold, making it the first choice of investors from all over the world including India.
The ‘Market Pulse Report’ of NSE for April states that the global gold demand reached the 15 -year highest level of 4,974 tonnes due to an increase of 25 percent in investment demands.
Central banks around the world continued their purchases and bought more than 1,000 tonnes of gold for the third consecutive year, which is more than double the annual average seen between 2010 and 2021.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) also increased the gold stake in its foreign exchange reserves from 6.7 per cent to 11.4 per cent in 2024, showing this global trend.
The NSE report reported that despite the better performance of gold in FY 2025, in a long period of 20 years, Indian equity markets have given more returns.
The price of 13 percent of the Nifty has been ahead of the return of 10.5 percent gold within the same deadline of 14.4 percent. Investors’ participation in India is increasing rapidly.
In March 2025, the total registered investor Aadhaar of NSE reached 11.3 crore, including 2.1 crore new investors in FY 2025 alone, which is the highest in the last five years.
The monthly average of investors joining since FY 2021 has exceeded double.
The report said that the number of new investors was seen the highest increase in states like Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
Equity cash market turnover on the trading front saw an impressive growth.
The turnover in FY 2020 increased from Rs 90 lakh crore to Rs 281 lakh crore in FY 2025, which is increasing from 26 percent CAGR.
The average daily turnover record in the cash market reached Rs 1.1 lakh crore, where the index option turnover declined slightly, while the premium turnover of the Nifty increased by 37 percent.
-IANS
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