Comments on: Gold in Your Portfolio

By: Why Gold could be a Bubble | Canadian Capitalist

Why Gold could be a Bubble | Canadian Capitalist — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:44:30 +0000

[...] must be recalled that, unlike conventional asset classes, gold pays neither interest nor dividends. Therefore, gold investors, as tulip bulb and dot com investors before them, must rely on the [...]

By: Why Gold Prices go up? | MoneySense

Why Gold Prices go up? | MoneySense — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:46:47 +0000

[...] Gold in Your Portfolio [...]

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:46:30 +0000

Owning gold shares makes absolutely no sense if you don’t own gold directly. What is the point of owning companies that produce gold if you don’t understand / invest / care about gold itself.

Sheesh, some people just don’t get it,

By: How to invest in physical gold bullion through bars or coins | Canadian Capitalist

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:35:00 +0000

[...] written many posts in the past on why gold is not a very attractive investment. Physical gold does not provide an ongoing income stream in the form of dividends or interest [...]

By: Claymore Gold Bullion Trust (CGL.UN) | Canadian Capitalist

Claymore Gold Bullion Trust (CGL.UN) | Canadian Capitalist — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:21:27 +0000

[...] I explained in this earlier post, I’m not sold on the rationale for holding gold in a portfolio. To the extent that an investor wants to add gold bullion to their portfolio and doesn’t care [...]

By: Canadian Capitalist

Canadian Capitalist — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:08:42 +0000

Nabloid: Five years ago, it was us Canadians who wanted a monetary union. My, how times change! I just don’t share in conspiracy theories. We are a sovereign country and we will stay that way…

Yes, the CPI is an imperfect measure. In fact, even under the current methodology StatsCan has made errors in the past but it’s better than nothing. Even if CPI is a perfect measure, it isn’t going to satisfy everyone. Your inflation experience is likely to be different than mine because we will almost surely spend money on different things.

By: Nabloid

Nabloid — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:45:51 +0000

Phil, the CPI is a poor way to track REAL inflation for the people and its a small basket of goods, it doesn’t give the best idea of OVERALL inflation. They include things like milk… which is highly regulated. I mean, how much is milk going to go up when its super regulated and controlled? I just don’t like the CPI and find it to be a poor way to measure inflation.

By: Nabloid

Nabloid — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:41:34 +0000

Willfly, I like the idea of a little bit of a backup plan, but even gold in times of emergency might not always do the trick if everyone is after food/water…

FinancialJungle, Yes, the CND$ has some of that correlation you speak of… until we end up with some stupid North American Union, of which Canada and Mexico would have absolutely no say (a majority vote by U.S. would be held) and lose ownership of all resources to the collective Union… and from that would come an Amero currency… If things get too bad with the USD, don’t you think they will push for a North American Currency & Union? Plus, that would add a lot of assets to their currently crappy balance sheet, allow thier companies and people access to vast resources…

By: Phil S

Phil S — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:47:37 +0000

The inflation hedge argument for gold doesn’t make much sense to me. If I were truly concerned about inflation, then wouldn’t it reason that I should instead invest in the products against which inflation is measured? Food & energy as part of the volatile portion of the CPI which is usually taken out of the core CPI calculation. And buying real estate and manufacturers of consumer products to make up for the core CPI. They don’t measure CPI against the price of gold.

By: nobleea

nobleea — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:35:30 +0000

Gold has gone up 26% in US$ terms in 2007 and 6% in CAD$ terms in 2007.