Asset under management in gold exchange-traded products (ETP) almost halved during 2013 as gold prices dived, driving investors out of the asset class.
Gold is on course to record its worst year for more than three decades following huge falls over 2013.
The gold price has suffered its largest fall in 30 years in 2013 as the US Federal Reserve begins withdrawing stimulus - but is that process now fully in the price?
Duncan Goodwin, manager of the Martin Currie Global Resources fund, is to leave the firm at the end of the year.
Ewout van Schaick, head of multi-asset strategies at ING Investment Management, has opened a position in commodities across his portfolios for the first time in a year.
Cazenove's Marcus Brookes and Robin McDonald have bought back into commodities for the first time since the financial crisis, snapping up funds which have sold off sharply on the back of tumbling commodity prices.