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"Gold Investments"

Feb

16

2011

Many Financial Advisors Still Ignorant of Gold’s Place In A Diversified Portfolio Part 3

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: CFA, Diversification, Gold Investments, Gold Purchasing Power, Monetary History, Money, Seeking Alpha

In Part 3 I will reveal a conversation with an additional CFA who decided to chime in on the debate as to whether gold is to be considered as a must for one’s portfolio.

Feb

15

2011

Many Financial Advisors Still Ignorant of Gold’s Place In A Diversified Portfolio Part 2

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: CFA, Diversification, Gold Investments, Gold Purchasing Power, Seeking Alpha, Stock Returns, Stock Values

In Part 2 of this article I will reveal some of the most recent discussions with a CFA who still doesn’t seem to possess basic investment common sense when it comes to the economy gold’s history as money.

Feb

14

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.

Feb

17

2010

Two Faced Soros Says Gold Is the Ultimate Bubble

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: buy gold, George Soros, Gold, Gold Investments, gold ultimate bubble, U.S. Dollar, U.S. Dollar Index

But more importantly one must understand that gold is just a shiny rock. How can a shiny rock be in a bubble? It is what the shiny rock is priced in that matters. For U.S. Dollar gold to be in a bubble, this would have to mean that the U.S. Dollar is going to get stronger. Much stronger.

Dec

28

2009

Why Does Harvard Economics Professor Call Gold a High Risk, Highly Volatile Investment?

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: central bank selling agreement, cfp, cpi, Diversification, EURO, Federal Reserve, Gold, gold hedge, Gold Investments, Government Spending, harvard ecnonomics professor, Inflation, martin feldstein, national bureau of economic research, Recession, U.S. Dollar

In my continued exposure of those who write articles that misrepresent gold I’ve run across an article written recently by former Ronald Reagan chief economic adviser and current Harvard Economics Professor, Martin Feldstein called “Is Gold a Good Hedge?”

I will dissect Feldstein’s article that is full of what I believe to be deliberate misinformation to confuse readers as to what gold truly represents in today’s economic and investment climate.

Jul

10

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.