The algorithmic TWAP/VWAP order routing techniques and off-market bilateral agreements sovereign funds use to buy billions in bullion without moving spot prices.
When a sovereign central bank or sovereign wealth fund decides to allocate $5 billion into physical gold, they cannot simply enter market buy orders without driving prices against themselves. They use sophisticated execution routing.
Sovereign entities purchase newly refined bullion directly from national refineries and mining consortiums before the metal ever reaches commercial exchange vaults, systematically reducing floating global market supply.
Time-Weighted Average Price (TWAP) breaks large orders into thousands of micro-orders executed at regular time intervals to achieve the average market price over a trading day.
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