Counterparty risk is the risk that another party in a financial arrangement fails to meet its obligation - a company defaulting on a bond, a bank failing, a stock's issuing company going bankrupt. Physical gold you actually hold doesn't carry that kind of risk, because its value doesn't depend on...
A dealer's own marketing about its customer service is, by definition, not an independent source. The verifiable things worth checking instead: the dealer's Better Business Bureau profile and complaint history, whether it's a member of industry bodies like the Professional Numismatists Guild or...
Unlike a stock or bond, gold produces no income - no dividend, no interest, no earnings. Its entire potential return comes from price appreciation, which is a meaningfully different risk/return profile than an income-producing asset.Gold also carries no counterparty risk in the sense that a bond...
General claims that "now" is the time to own physical metals skip the more useful question of how much. Among fee-only certified financial planners who do recommend a precious-metals allocation at all, the common range cited is roughly 5-10% of a total investment portfolio — treated as a...
Gold's most-cited inflation-era performance comes from the 1970s. After the U.S. left the gold standard in 1971 (the 'Nixon Shock'), gold's price - previously fixed near $35 an ounce - was allowed to float freely, and it rose sharply through the decade's high inflation, reaching several hundred...
