Since the Fed raised rates last month, gold has outperformed most major asset classes, according to a recent Bloomberg article. Though counterintuitive, the article says, gold’s strong performance has become…
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Insights on Owning Gold
In a recently published article in Advisor Perspectives, Robert Heubscher interviews First Eagle Investment’s Thomas Kertsos to gather the research analyst’s insights around owning the precious metal. Here are some…
Copper Better Hedge than Gold
While gold has been the popular inflation hedge over the past ten years, copper was a better bet according to a recent Bloomberg article. “While data show that broad community…
Gold and Stocks on Different Paths
The inverse relationship between gold and stocks has never been this pronounced, according to an article in this week’s MarketWatch. However, it also references analysts’ opinions that the two may…
Is the Gold Hedge Really Just All Hype?
These days, gold looks particularly shiny to investors who are trying to mitigate risk in an uncertain global economy (so far this year, gold is up 29%). But an article…
Zweig: Gold Is Not All That Glitters
In the summer of 2015, Jason Zweig wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal in which he claims that investing in gold (which was trading at around $1,130 an…
George Soros is Feeding the Bear
In recent years, 85-year-old billionaire George Soros hasn’t done much investing of his own. He has instead focused on public philanthropy and public policy (and is a large contributor to…
Soros Beefs Up Hedge against the S&P 500
Soros Fund Management has doubled its put option (the right to sell shares at a specified price) on the SPDR S&P 500 exchange-traded fun (which tracks the benchmark U.S. index),…
4 Options to Beat Inflation in the Future
A recent piece in Forbes offers 4 suggestions for beating inflation. After noting that “the present 0% rate [of inflation] blends an upward march of 2% in the cost of…
Faber Says We're In A "Stealth Bear"
While stocks are up slightly this year, Marc Faber of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report says that a “stealth bear market” has been going on under the surface. (more…)