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Precious Metals Funds
Precious metals funds can be a safe port in a stock market storm. These are investments that tend to go up when standard garden-variety stocks head south, the bears are roaring, or the markets are in turmoil for political reasons.
Precious metals (gold, silver, platinum, palladium) are a bet against the dollar, euro and other western currencies because all of them are fiat currencies without any commodity backing. Therefore, when the value of precious metals (especially gold) is rising, the value of the dollar tends to decline. Precious metals investments also has little correlation to the stock market - the two tend to go in opposite directions.
Stocks, which are financial assets, generally do terribly when there are inflation fears, which is a perfect environment for precious metals investments. Therefore a small amount of gold or other precious metals can provide significant portfolio diversification.
Precious Metals Funds Performance
Precious metals are considered to be best performing asset class of the last decade. Take a look on the following charts. We believe that the numbers speak for itself ...
Gold and Currencies Over the Last Decade
Silver Investment and Currencies
Performane of Gold and Warren Buffett
Return from Precious Metals Funds to Best Investment Funds
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