GLD UCITS alternative: IGLN
European investors who cannot buy GLD directly can use IGLN as BestFolio's exact match UCITS substitute, with ISIN IE00B4ND3602.
US to UCITS mapping
Original US-listed ETF ticker used in strategy rules and backtests.
iShares Physical Gold ETC
Universal identifier to search at European brokers.
IGLN tracks the same index or exposure as GLD in a UCITS wrapper.
What is IGLN?
IGLN is iShares Physical Gold ETC, a UCITS-compliant ETF that BestFolio uses when translating GLD into a European-broker-friendly allocation. UCITS funds are designed for EU and UK retail access and carry the required investor documents that US-listed ETFs usually lack.
Physical gold. Also: SGBS (WisdomTree Physical Swiss Gold). The source ticker has 1x exposure and the UCITS substitute has 1x exposure, so BestFolio can flag leverage differences during allocation translation.
Where GLD is used on BestFolio
GLD appears in 27 currently published BestFolio strategy universes or signal rules.
Build the full UCITS version of a TAA strategy
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