There are three terms that are unfortunately often used interchangeably in the investing world. These are investment, speculation, and wealth preservation. While they have some basic elements in common, they are vastly different concepts in general and should not be…
Truthfully, there’s no way of accurately pinpointing short-term or long-term gold price movements. It’s a near-impossible endeavor, given that there are many intervening variables that must be factored in. It doesn’t simplify things that gold has historically performed well under…
Alternative investments are increasing in popularity with savvy investors who want to diversify a retirement account. Not only does one gain tax advantages, but they provide a diversified strategy cushioning a portfolio when traditional markets are volatile. In this article,…
Since the United States’ Internal Revenue Service at last began offering its citizens the right to store their Gold IRA physical precious metals assets internationally, it seems like every nation has jumped head first into the offshore precious metals storage…
When you set out to buy gold bullion, there are a number of considerations you need to take into account. It is more than just figuring out who to purchase the gold from, though that is a logical starting point.…
It is ironic that modern governments (who hardly even believe in gold as money) have a history of making war on gold when times get tough. The facts bear out the cases of five different nations making it their business…
As you can see in the picture above, Bitcoin is often represented by a gold colored token. The world’s second largest cryptocurrency (by market cap) Ethereum commonly has a silver token portrayal. It is no accident that the two leading…
Gold, is considered by many, to be a hard asset that can be used as a long-term investment vehicle and will help you avoid the rapid devaluation of your portfolio during times of market turbulence. Gold is looked at by…
NOTE ABOUT THIS STUDY: we commissioned a 3rd party investment research firm, Beta Capital LLC, to conduct a thorough study on whether gold makes sense in an IRA. The firm looked into three different gold allocations (5%, 10% and 25%)…
Thanks to the significantly higher gold prices over the last decade, gold bars in almost any size have become so valuable now that counterfeiters find them a profitable challenge and a potentially big score. If you are sitting on a…
The majority of senior citizens in the U.S. are poorly informed about their retirement investment options, especially in regard to holding alternative investments like precious metals. Here’s the official poll question and results: “Did you know that you can own…
Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) Funds attempt to match the progress of the underlying stock market indices for each fund. It should not come as a great surprise to investors that if the stock markets are down in general, these funds…
Despite the fact that plenty of investment banks had lined up against gold’s prospects over the past months, gold managed to post its best quarter in thirty years for the first three months of 2016. Gold prices roared 16% higher…
The US dollar lost 2.15% against the Japanese yen in the space of 15 minutes after the Bank of Japan (BoJ) announcement on interest rates. The spin-off from this turmoil provoked a fall in the S&P 500 of 0.7% within…
It’s been said that the responses to a crisis sow the seeds of the next upheaval. Indeed, history suggests that the so-called fixes often fall short of expectations. First, they fail to take account of the fact that the causes of…
In the old, pre-crisis days, it was not odd to think that bad news for bonds was good news for stocks. It made sense from a fundamental perspective. Fixed-income markets tend to do poorly when economic activity is strong or inflation…
Gold has a following that never gives up nor surrenders. This has something to do with the feelings of safety and security that it has always created for those who owned it historically, and that it still creates for investors…
Among the growing number of robo advisors in the personal financial apps space today, Wealthfront proves to be one of the biggest and most successful. They measure their success in more than $2.7 billion of customer assets under management. The company…
To many observers, the outlook for oil and other energy products, industrial and precious metals, grains and other commodities remains bleak, even after a rout that has seen the CRB Commodity Index lose more than a third of its value…
(Note: Secondary Market Annuitie’s website is currently inactive, and the company may be defunct. Please see our full list of currently active, top-ranked precious metals IRA companies here.) A secondary market annuity (SMA) or secondary annuity (SA) is also commonly…
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