Below is an article from today’s ET.The author has failed to convince me that buying and holding physical gold at current prices is likely to be a good idea in the long term.After all paper currency systems must collapse sometime and gold tends to be around forever.But buying paper gold,especially as part of a blended mutual fund such as a combo of equities,gold and debt might have something going for it.Read the article below and decide for yourself:-
Gold to scale new peaks in coming years: Ritesh Jain, Head of Investments Canara Robeco Asset Management.
It’s a lump of metal with no cash flows and earnings power. The buyer even foregoes gradual accumulation of intrinsic value as it is industrially useless. But just imagine the second-largest economy in the world frantically buying this metal. Read more of this post