Türkiye’de Finans Piyasası Profesyonellerinin Altına Yönelik Algısı Üzerine Bir Çalışma

Year 2021, Volume: 20 Issue: 3, 1324 - 1337, 29.07.2021

Yakup Alper Yakupoğlu , Mustafa Okur

https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.865371

Cited By: 3

Abstract

Türkiye’de geleneksel bir yatırım aracı olarak kabul gören altın son yıllarda önemli bir merkez bankası rezervi haline de gelmiş, finans sektörünün artan ilgisiyle altın tasarruf hesapları, altın yatırım fonları yaygınlaşmaya başlamıştır. Hem Türkiye’de hem de uluslararası piyasalarda altına yönelik yatırım iştahında artış görülmekte, finans sektöründe altının bir finansal enstrüman olarak önemi daha da artmaktadır. Bu çerçevede, bu çalışmanın amacı; Türk finans piyasasında çalışan profesyonellerin bir merkez bankası rezervi, ödeme ve yatırım aracı olarak altın algısını analiz etmektir. Analiz, Türk finans sektöründe yer alan; banka, aracı kurum ve portföy yönetim şirketi çalışanlarından, özellikle hazine/fon/portföy yöneticileri ve çalışanları arasında anket yöntemiyle yapılmış, elde edilen istatistiksel verilerden algı skoru hesaplanmıştır.

Keywords

Altın, Altın piyasası, Değişim aracı olarak altın, Merkez Bankası altın rezervi

A Study on Perception of Financial Market Professionals in Turkey Towards Gold

Abstract

Gold becomes an important central bank reserve in Turkey, gold savings accounts and gold investment funds begun to increase with the increasing interest of the financial sector in last years. The risk appetite for gold is increasing both in Turkish and international financial markets. The importance of gold as a financial instrument is growing. Within this framework, the aim of this study is to analyze the perception of gold among the professionals in the Turkish financial market as a central bank reserve, a mean of payment and an investment instrument. The analysis was done by a survey made among the employees of the banks, broker firms and portfolio management companies in the Turkish financial sector, mainly among treasury departments, fund and portfolio managers. A perception score was calculated from the statistical data.

Keywords

Gold, Gold Market, Central Bank Gold reserves

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