Comments on: Do Precious Metals Belong in My Portfolio

By: Russell Wixon

Russell Wixon — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:01:48 +0000

To answer Tom’s question, there is a risk in buying the actual Exchange Traded Funds, albeit not huge. Since these ETF’s own so much of gold (GLD), or silver (SLV), they do not actually HOLD all the physical bullion. There may be a problem down the road. One way to combat that is to buy CEF. Check it out, it’s a closed end fund that owns about 99% of all the bullion it owns, in vaults.

By: GoldPerOunce

GoldPerOunce — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:13:31 +0000

I enjoyed your article a lot and gave me some great insight into ETF’s, mutual funds, and managing a portfolio. I invest more in physical metals, but in these times I believe adding stocks/mutual funds/etf’s etc. that invest in ONLY precious metals is a good consideration. In these economic times metals are highly sought after and supply is not meeting demand. If you look at the book The Visual Investor, and Cross Market Analysis, you will see that a weakening dollar is lead by a strengthening gold stock. Most precious metals mirror gold. Also when oil is usually a pre-indicator to what gold will do and oil has started to climb up slowly again. Will precious metals follow? As with all investments you will have to do some research, but I believe they will.

By: tom

tom — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:57:58 +0000

Is it make sense to own like ETF’s or the actual physical metal itself such as gold or silver?

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