Gold ETF: Historical Performace of Gold ETF in India, give similar returns

Initially, we had given the list of Gold ETFs available in India in this article. Now that it has been some time and we have been seeing heavy swings and volatility in Gold ETF, its time now to see the historical performace of these GOLD ETF and see how has your fund manager managed to give you returns.
We have collected data from the article published in Times of India which was based on research by ValueResearch and the figures mentioned here are sourced from that.
So here is the comparative table for Historical Performance of Gold ETF in India:


As you can observe in the table above, the performance of all the Gold ETF's in India has been almost the same. The best being the Gold Benchamrk Fund from the Benchmark fund house which is famous for bringing ETF products to India. However, their 1 year return has been marginally higher than the rest of GOLD ETFs, which are Kotak Gold ETF, Quantum Gold ETF and UTI Gold ETF. The only laggard when you see the 1 year return has been the Reliance Gold ETF, whose 1 year returns have been less than 2% as compared to other Gold ETF's, as per valueresearch data.

So what's the verdict? Basically, ETF's are good - any ETF is good, as long as it can track the underlying prices correctly. Looking at the high returns from Gold in the recent past, even SBI Mutual Fund has decided to come out with its own Gold ETF called the SBI GETS-SBI Gold ETF NFO Review: SBI Gold Exchange Traded Scheme