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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Gold is an important asset class that is good to own during bull and bear markets although a small portion of a well-diversified portfolio should suffice. During bull markets in equities gold may not earn high returns. However during bear markets or when uncertainty plagues the market such as now then gold is a great …
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