Gold Fund Inflows Smash Record With $80 Billion In 2025 — These ETFs Are Riding The $3,300 Surge

Amid the staggering rally in the Gold prices, the gold fund net inflows have hit a record of $80 billion year-to-date, doubling over its previous record high in 2020, according to the BofA Global Investment Strategy report.

What Happened: A BofA Research graph shared by the Kobeissi Letter on X highlights how the investors have been pouring money into gold at a record pace amid the ongoing market uncertainty.

The Gold Spot US Dollar price has rallied 25.95% from $2,623.81 on Dec. 31, 2024, to $3,304.80 per ounce as of today. Its record high stood at $3,318 per ounce as of the publication of this article.

Apart from this, the World Gold Council data for the first quarter released last week highlighted that Gold ETFs saw an inflow of 226.5 metric tons worth $21.1 billion, the largest amount since the first quarter of 2022.

Following this, Gold ETF holdings increased by 3% to 3,445.3 tons by March-end, the highest since May 2023 but below the record 3,915 tons in October 2020. However, the World Gold Council noted that U.S.-listed funds saw the largest inflow in the first quarter with 133.8 tons, followed by Europe-listed funds with 54.8 tons.

All Gold-linked ETFs have risen over 21% year-to-date in 2025.

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Why It Matters: When compared with data from over 25 years, gold prices have skyrocketed 1046.5% from $288.25 on Dec. 31, 1999, to $3,304.80 today. In comparison, the S&P 500 index has risen by 267.31% from 1,469.25 on Dec. 31, 1999, to 5,396.63 as of Tuesday’s close.

According to Zafar Shaikh, the founder & CEO of Invesys Capital, gold prices have doubled over the last 30 months. This last happened in 2008 and 2011. However, he cautioned that “So it may still have some juice left but if you are late to the GOLD party, take a deep breath & let it pass rather than getting attracted by $5000 targets.”

Meanwhile, Christopher Aaron, the founder of iGold Advisor, highlighted the Dow-to-Gold ratio in a chart, which showed that the ratio had broken a 45-year best-fit trend. The chart said that this pattern suggested that gold could outpace general equities over the next several decades.