gold
While there are periods when gold has hedged inflation quite well, beware blanket claims of gold's inflation-hedging utility.
When it comes to hedging equity risk, bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are less "digital gold" and more fool's gold.
What happened to the negative correlation between the price of gold and the US dollar?
What is the best way to hold more traditional stores of value, such as gold? Mark Harrison, CFA, and Keyur Patel explore the question in the latest edition of the In Practice series.
David-Michael Lincke, CFA, said that commodities continue to offer many investors meaningful benefits through diversification, inflation protection, and absolute returns.
How do investors navigate a climate in which currencies are potentially unstable and the Fed and central banks stand accused of becoming printing presses?
Is gold an really an inflation hedge? Is it a safe haven in times of stress? Cam Harvey has investigated some of the common arguments made in favor of gold.
What's the strategic case for gold as an investment? We posed this question to Juan Carlos Artigas, the head of investment research for the World Gold Council, the market development organization for the gold industry.
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