Rebalancing is a form of both risk management and a systematic way to carry out a contrarian investment strategy. The entire point of allocating money to different investments in a thoughtful way is to create a risk-return profile that balances out your long-term objectives with your short-term comfort level. Deviating from that risk-return profile can be a huge behavioral risk if you’re not aware of how it can change your portfolio’s composition.
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Every investor should have a minimum of 10% of their portfolio in physical gold – coins or bars. Here's why.
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Investors wisely seeking exposure to precious metals must deliberate between the convenience of buying shares of an electronically traded fund (ETF) and the ultimate security of owning physical gold and silver bullion. We tasked ourselves to take a closer look at each to understand their important distinctions.
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Below are 6 factors, illustrated in chart form, that favor gold in the current environment.
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There is a strong belief that independent measures of inflation are false and not trustworthy. I address this issue and show how the rate of inflation is measured today, the historical background of it, and compare different methods to find out which one is closer to the truth.
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A decisive break above $1,400 an ounce could be just around the corner and, to my mind, would signal the start of gold’s next major advance.
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Today's article identifies 5 junior gold stocks that are currently trading at a large discount to their peer group in terms of Price/Book Value and, based on that metric, could well represent good value.
Read More »Protect Yourself From the Inevitable Financial System Implosion – Here’s How
Sadly, things have now gone too far to stop the inevitable currency collapse and implosion of the financial system but that doesn’t mean that it is too late for individuals to protect themselves.
Read More »Your Portfolio: What IS & IS NOT Effective Diversification
Investors are paying more and more attention to how certain strategies, asset classes or investments perform over shorter and shorter time frames, constantly looking for the best or worst performing sector/smart beta style/ETF/hedge fund/portfolio strategy during the latest two day or even two month sell-off or rebound. That’s not how you build a long-lasting portfolio. This article discusses some of the misconceptions about diversification.
Read More »Canadian Home Prices Give Me the “Heebeejeebies” – Here’s Why
The price of an average (benchmark) home in Vancouver, Canada is $1,400,000 which is 30.1% higher than it was a year ago. Yes, 30.1%! Everything seems rosy when riding a hot investment until one thing goes awry. We never seem to know what that'll be, but experienced money managers usually get the heebeejeebies just before it happens -and that's what is happening these days.
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