Many Financial Advisors Still Ignorant of Gold’s Place In A Diversified Portfolio Part 1

Posted by on Feb 14, 2011 in Gold | 0 comments

In the past few years I have been challenging financial advisors as to their understanding of how gold fits into a diversified portfolio. The reason that I am capable of challenging financial advisors, more than any other gold dealer in the country, is I was a financial advisor for 20 years. I’ve seen first hand what is pushed upon advsiors as the “norm” for diversification by...

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The Wealthy Are Buying Physical Gold By the Ton – Why Aren’t You?

Posted by on Oct 5, 2010 in Gold | 0 comments

One of the reasons for gold’s push to all-time higher prices today, could be because of a story that came out saying that the wealthy of the world are making moves to protect their portfolios by buying more physical gold. The question is, why haven’t you? In a Reuters story coming out of Switzerland, fears about the return of a double dip recession have fueled the appetite for the...

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Gold and the EURO Connection; Another Nail in the U.S. Dollar Coffin?

Posted by on Jul 14, 2009 in Gold, Inflation, Interest rates, U.S. Dollar | 0 comments

Financial Advisor’s who don’t diversify their clients into gold typically give as one of their reasons not to invest in gold, it’s long term record as compared to stocks and bonds.  In one sense they are right.  In many other ways they are dead wrong and their clients will suffer from their lack of understanding about how gold fits into a well diversified portfolio. How...

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Gold Investment Bashers Won’t Respond to Critique

Posted by on Jul 10, 2009 in Gold, Investing, Stocks, U.S. Dollar | 0 comments

I’ve moved on with my battle with financial advisor’s who attack gold as an investment as I didn’t receive a response from the first one.  If financial advisor’s are willing to critique gold as an investment, then they should at least respond to my criticism of their understanding of how gold fits into a well diversified portfolio. While I won’t mention...

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Challenging Financial Advisors on the Need to Diversify Into Gold

Posted by on Jul 8, 2009 in Education Blog, Gold, Government Spending, Inflation, Investing, Stocks, U.S. Dollar | 1 comment

In a follow up to a recent article; Gold: Why Doesn’t Your Financial Advisor Recommend It?, I decided to take on the task of challenging a financial advisor on their understanding of how gold fits into one’s portfolio. First, you should know that I was a financial advisor for over 20 years.  I left the business to follow my passion to write as described in my “About Doug”...

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