Tag Archives: gold

There are many risks right now that favor owning gold in your portfolio. Below I’ve selected 5 of the most compelling charts that highlight why I think you need gold in your portfolio now.

Gold and silver have been exceptionally weak this year. Is it finally time to buy gold & silver?

While gold has traditionally been seen as a tactical way to help preserve wealth during market corrections, times of geopolitical stress or persistent dollar weakness, we think there is a case to be made for gold as a core diversifying asset with a long-term strategic role in multi-asset portfolios...as gold’s historically low or negative correlation with most other asset classes argues in its favor...This article looks at how gold-backed assets have behaved over time as a portfolio diversifier, tail risk hedge and inflation hedge.

To protect one's wealth against risks one must own physical gold. Acquiring gold mining shares...[instead]would be a mistake. This article proves that contention.

History, as well as recent action, suggests that weakness in the stock market is more crucial to gold’s future than weakness in the US Dollar.

It is critical to heed the strong warning signs of deep trouble coming in Europe, Japan and the USA. A 75-79% fall in the currencies of these countries is telling us that they will all go to their intrinsic value of ZERO in the next few years. This will lead eventually to the same hyperinflation as in Argentina and Venezuela...

Today’s infographic comes to us from Neptune-GBX and it showcases the story of each precious metal and, more importantly, it shows why owning them simultaneously is the only way to get exposure to the unique supply and demand drivers behind each of them in the context of the modern market.

Larger allocations to gold are merited, then silver and investors should consider very small allocations to platinum and palladium.

There are many different investment vehicles one can use to invest in gold but the key aspects that we as investors and traders must always look for are the vehicles' relationship and correlation with gold prices, and how much that correlation is or isn’t leveraged to the gold price.

Dr. Martin Murenbeeld, chief economist for Dundee Wealth Economics and one of the smartest gold minds around, outlines below his nine bullish arguments for gold.