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Precious Metals
By this we mean Gold, Silver and Platinum. We also prefer physically holding the asset which means those funds that physically hold metals. There are very few!
Precious metals offer protection against inflation, currency fluctuations, political uncertainty and times of crisis. Demand often outstrips supply in problematic times leading to heavy appreciation. Conversely, when equities rally and look good then the need for precious metals reduces. Therefore precious metals acts as a hedge in times of uncertainty.
A fund that is looking for proper asset allocation will hold these precious metals, and will act as a hedge in a multi-asset portfolio as well as providing defence against a wide range of economic and political uncertainties (as they did in the 1970’s)
Global production of precious metals remains vulnerable to short supply, particularly silver, and this may mean to continued appreciation in the long term.
