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Toronto-Dominion Bank’s chief investment officer, Bruce Cooper, is changing the firm’s outlook to
conserve capital by moving funds heavily into gold. According to Bloomberg, TD Bank oversees more than $230 billion in assets, and has “shifted to a ‘maximum overweight’ in gold for its portfolios.”…
The comments above and below are excerpts from an article by Joel Bauman (SchiffGold.com) which has been edited ([ ]) and abridged (…) to provide a faster and easier read.
What’s caused Cooper’s course change? The usual suspects:
- a sluggish global economy,
- the Brexit vote,
- central banking policies, and
- the upcoming US presidential election.
All have contributed to TD’s overall feeling of uncertainty.
Within TD’s portfolio, gold promotes “diversification, stability and protecting against deflation more than returns,” Cooper said. “Job one today is about capital preservation. It’s not about shooting the lights out.”
For Cooper, gold investment is about playing it smart, not about being a doom and gloomer. “We’re cautious but not negative. This is not about canned goods and getting in the bunker,” he said.
2016’s political outcomes are also something to consider, Cooper believes. “If Germany moves away from its traditional austerity approach or Hillary Clinton and the Democrats take power in the U.S. and unveil fiscal stimulus, that could shift the global economy into a more inflationary state.”
A Clinton presidency would almost certainly ensure fiscal stimulus alongside monetary easing in the form of low or potentially negative interest rates and quantitative easing. The combination of poor fiscal and monetary policy will further weaken the U.S. dollar.
The morale of the story is if you do not own gold or silver it’s wise to take action before the 2016 elections. Physical coin supply is limited, we may experience another shortage, comparable or worse to the industry shortage we experienced last fall.
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