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Sep

2013

Do Financial Advisors Ever Caution You Against Buying Stocks?

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: buy, caution, financial advisor, Gold, precious metals, sell, silver, Stocks

Recently I had someone tell me that I am biased in favor of gold and silver (meaning always bullish) because I sell gold and silver. This was rather presumptuous on their behalf which is why I copied the articles below to show what I have actually written over the past five months about the gold and silver markets. Sept. 16 …

Feb

2011

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

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: CFA, cfp, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Balance Sheet, financial advisor, Gold Investments, modern portfolio theory, Price of Gold, Prudent Man Rule, quantitative easing, Risk Free Asset, U.S. Treasuries

What the financial services industry did was take the stable asset of gold and tried to replace it with the U.S. dollar. The financial advisors were led to believe that the U.S. dollar is a “risk free” asset, when throughout history, only gold has never gone to zero in value.

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Oct

2010

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

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: buy gold, buy gold and silver, buy gold bullion, buy silver, buy silver bullion, currency risk, Diversification, european coins, financial advisor, Gold bullion, gold dealer rip-off, gold dealer scam, Gold Investing, modern portfolio theory, Silver bullion

There are many reasons you haven’t invested in gold and silver, and most are not your fault. One thing the wealthy have that most in America don’t have is a good financial advisor that understands currency risk.

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Jul

2009

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

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: decoupling, Dollar, Economy, EURO, Financial Adviser, financial advisor, Gold, Inflation, Investing, Money, Stocks

Another story was developing at this time; the EURO had bounced off its lows and become a much stronger currency. As the dollar was sinking from its high in 2002, and the uncertainty of what affect Central Bank sales would have on the price of gold, the EURO became the only other “safe haven” in the mind of those who were looking to get out of the dollar.

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Jul

2009

Gold Investment Bashers Won’t Respond to Critique

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Diversification, financial advice, financial advisor, Gold, Gold Investments, investiments, Stocks, U.S. Dollar

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.

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Jul

2009

Challenging Financial Advisors on the Need to Diversify Into Gold

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Bailout, Bonds, Dollar, Economy, Financial Adviser, financial advisor, Gold, Inflation, Investing, Money, stimulus, Stocks

What financial advisor’s need to do is prepare their clients for the coming inflation as a result of all this government spending. What financial advisor’s need to do is diversify their clients into gold.

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