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You may have heard the old Wall Street Saying,” Put 10% of your money into Gold and hope it doesn't work". Well its seems to be true, our research ...

  If history is any guide, the Chinese renminbi will soon be due to overtake the US dollar, just as the dollar replaced the pound sterling las...

The ABCs of Gold Investing - Protecting Your Wealth Through Private Gold Ownership by Michael J. Kosares Now for the first time under one cover, no...

Greg Weldon Founder of Weldon Financial Greg Weldon is a macroeconomic, commodities and precious metals expert and author of 'Gold Trading Boot Cam...

When investing in any asset class whether they be paper assets like bonds and equities or tangible assets like property and precious metals, an inv...

SIPPs are Self-Invested Personal Pensions which are new types of personal pension schemes recently introduced by the UK government. The SIPP itself...

Residents in the UK can now invest in gold bullion in their pension funds. UK citizens can as of April 2006 invest in gold bullion through their Se...

When having precious metals investments held by the selling dealer or another custody company, how can investors know their precious metals really ...

This depends on your motivation for buying precious metals. If you are simply investing in precious metals in order to diversify and in order to ma...

Macroeconomic risk is the risk posed by the business and economic cycle in the form of recessions and monetary threats of deflation, inflation, sta...

Geopolitical risk simply means international political risk as posed by international economic, diplomatic and military tensions. With the end of ...

•The Perth Mint Certificate Programme has advantages over ETFs for investors with a medium to long term horizon •ETFs have an annual...

Gold and other precious metals are sold based on the internationally accepted current price of the metal, also known as the 'spot price'. All our p...

A bullion coin is a coin that is of investment grade purity (over 900/1000 and normally 999/1000 fineness) and is valued by its weight in a specifi...

Bullion is simply high grade, almost pure gold, silver and platinum in mass in the form of coins and bars. We often hear from first-time gold buyer...

A Brief History of Gold Gold and silver have been the cornerstones of the world's economies and banking systems since these systems were first de...

For centuries gold has been coveted for its unique blend of near indestructibility, beauty, rarity and because of its status as a universal currenc...

It is extremely important that investors do not have all their investment eggs in the one basket. Asset diversification is fundamental to successfu...

The gold price is typically less volatile than commodity prices and most asset classes. This is because the depth and liquidity of the gold market,...

It has been shown in numerous academic studies including by the highly respected portfolio and asset allocation experts, Ibbotson and Associates, i...