subject: This Is The Time To Invest In Gold! [print this page] Author: Ahmad Hassam Author: Ahmad Hassam
Savvy investors know the important of never putting all their eggs in one basket. They always diversify their investment portfolio in different assets keeping in view their risk appetite and expected return.Diversifying your portfolio reduces risk and helps it grow over time. So when you are diversifying your portfolio, you need to look at different sectors. Now, you can diversify your portfolio by investing in stocks, currencies, real estate and don't forget the precious metals like gold, silver, platinum and palladium.Why this is the best time to diversify your portfolio with precious metals? FED has been printing a lot of greenbacks. Inflation is going to become a major problem as the economy recovers from unemployment and recession. Rather, all over the world, almost every government has been printing cash like mad to ward of the recession.So, this decade that has just started a few days back is going to cause inflation to rise and make it an inflationary decade. When inflation rises, money loses its value. You need more to buy the same quantity of goods. Gold and silver are considered to be the best investments in times of inflation. During high inflation gold is the ultimate store of wealth.Adding gold to your investment portfolio will hedge it against inflation to some extent. Gold and silver make excellent long term inflation hedges. By investing in gold now, you will be preserving your wealth in the coming decade. In addition to that you will also make sizable capital gain as gold prices are in an uptrend for the last many years. Right now, gold prices are at their historical peak.Gold and silver are rather very versatile investments. When you invest in stocks, you are only investing in a stock. But when you invest in precious metals like gold and silver, you can physical own them in the shape of coins and jewelry. You can also have paper ownership in the form of gold and silver futures or in the form gold ETF or you can even invest in the stocks of a gold mining company.In the end, it all depends on what you want to do with your money. Your investment portfolio, money, precious metals and all other things that are there in the financial world are just for your convenience. All these things are tools for living. So, in the world of investing, trading and speculating, precious metals are a means to an end. You need to know what you want to do! About the Author:
Mr. Ahmad Hassam has done Masters from Harvard. If you can read an email, you can start printing cash with these Strignano's Forex Signals. One new member made $15,000 in just 24 hours. This is not just a Forex Signal Service but you also get the best forex training & mentoring from Tom Strignano, an EX-Chief Currency Trader. You also get a robot with it that you can use to trade while sleeping!
