Gold is an important asset class to own in a well diversified portfolio. The performance of gold is negatively co-related to risky assets such as the S&P 500. In this post, let’s review the return of gold vs. the S&P 500 during major crises in the past few decades. Before we get to that a …
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Equities beat gold in the short and long-terms. As an asset class gold is important to hold in a well-diversified portfolio. However gold returns lag stocks when returns are measured in many years such as 100, 30 and 10 years. This is because stocks are still the preferred asset for growing wealth. In this post, …
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Gold is an important asset to own in a well-diversified portfolio. Gold offers portfolio protection especially during periods of high volatility in equity markets or crises. This is because when equities crash gold generally rises and hence offers stability to a portfolio. Since gold as an asset class does not produce income such as dividends …
The Top 10 Gold Producing Countries in 2019 are shown in the chart below. China was the top producer of gold followed by Russia and Australia. It is surprising that China is a big gold producer. Though one would expect South Africa to be the top producer the country was the eighth producer behind Ghana. …
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Gold has had an excellent run so far this year. The yellow metal is up over 28% year-to-date as investors pile into it as a hedge against risky assets and uncertainties brought by Covid-19. In general, gold as an asset class performs well when stocks and bonds do not. I recently across an article by Matthew …
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