Why gold should be the foundation of all investment portfolios.
If an investor made a single lump sum investment of $100,000 into the US Stock Market in March 2000 – their portfolio as at 31 March 2020 would be worth approximately $250,000 (1). This result assumes dividends were reinvested and no tax was payable.
Unfortunately for the stock investor, March 2000 was shortly before the Dot-com Crash. This early crash certainly hurt the overall performance of this asset class over a 20 year period, which averaged a mere 4.76% per annum.
A savvy investor might have noted that stock prices were high in 2000 and taken on a more conservative investment strategy by investing $100,000 in US Bonds. Assuming income was reinvested, over the past 20 years they would have turned their $100,000 into $270,000 (2).
This savvy investor took on far less investment risk and achieved a greater return – which in itself is an excellent result!
Or was it?
A third investor, both savvy and Financially Awakened was even more cautious and wanted to take on almost no investment risk whatsoever. This investor therefore invested their $100,000 entirely in gold.
Their March 2020 investment is now worth approximately $580,000 (3). More than twice that of the stock and bond investment portfolios.
The gold investor has achieved an average annual return of 9.24%.
The past 2 decades has been a bonanza for those cautious investors who focused their investment portfolios on gold. So the question remains –
Why doesn’t everyone build gold into their investment portfolios?
Plus a couple of other questions…
Why don’t financial advisers and bankers recommend gold to their clients?
Why doesn’t mainstream media report on the out-performance of gold over other asset classes?
I would love to get your answers and comments.
GOLDSMITH
Charts and data thanks to GOLDHUB and the World Gold Council.
https://www.gold.org/goldhub
Metrics:
1. MSCI USA Net Total Return USD Index 1971+
2. Bloomberg Barclays US Agg Total Return Value Unhedged USD 1976+
3. LBMA Gold Price PM USD 1971+
Notes on results and disclaimers:
- All results are hypothetical
- Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns and data and other errors may exist.
- The entered time period is automatically adjusted based on the available return data for the specified assets
- CAGR = Compound Annual Growth Rate
- Stdev = Annualised standard deviation of monthly returns
- Sharpe and Sortino ratios are calculated and annualised from monthly excess returns over risk free rate (1-month t-bills)
- Stock market correlation is based on the correlation of monthly returns
- Drawdowns are calculated based on monthly returns
- The results use total return and assume that all dividends and distributions are reinvested. Taxes and transaction fees are not included
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