Should I Invest My Fortune in Gold? Inaugural Lecture by Dr Brian Lucey

by Mark O’Byrne, Gold Core:

PRESENTATION HIGHLIGHTS

– Should I invest my fortune in gold?
– Lessons from gold and silver: Reviewing the research
– What precious metals can tell us about finance?
– What are precious metals and why should we care?
– What size of market and how evolved over time?
– Long and detailed history of gold and silver as money
– What does a tonne of gold look like?

– Research on precious metals including volatility and inflation
– Where produced and where demand from and how evolved and who studying precious metals
– Game of Thrones & Scrooge McDuck’s gold and the Hyperinflation of Smaug
– Gold and silver manipulation – “Was the fix a fix”?
– Gold a ‘permabubble’ or in correction?
– Gold costs $1,000/oz to mine so unlikely to fall below that level
– Drivers of retail coin and bar investment
– How does sentiment and mood affect precious metals?
– Why do central banks continue to buy and hold gold?
– Historical studies of precious metals
– How much to hold and when?
– Gold is proven safe haven – rises sharply when uncertainty and in economic crisis
– Research says 10% a good allocation; 30% is high
– Silver similar – 1% to 5% and 10% allocation good in crisis

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