Where do you keep your Savings?

[Southie]

Re: Where do you keep your Savings?

@MissFreudian

Just an update:
We have decided to go down the Gold bullion route.

Here is an FT article about investing in Gold that finally convinced us, and after talking to a few experts too! ( looks like Mirch’s advice wasn’t bad either!) :k:

**Gold will stay high for a very long time
**
As I write, gold is knocking on the door of $1,900 an ounce. And if you have been following my pyramiding gold strategy, you’ll have noticed just how quickly those $100 up-moves have been coming round!
What we are witnessing is a seismic shift in the gold market. Investors and emerging market central banks across the globe are fed up with governments debasing currencies. So they are taking matters into their own hands. You could argue that they are re-establishing a gold standard.
And you need to be on the right side of this move. Today, I’d like to talk about why I think gold has established a new and sustainable price level. And why if you don’t already have a gold buying plan, I think you should get started straight away.
Currencies have been over-valued for 40 years
Central banks across the globe are scrambling for gold. They’re looking for a new and more robust reserve in the light of devaluing currencies.
As early as November last year, Robert Zoellick, the president of the World Bank, called for a global reserve currency based on gold. Since then countless emerging market central banks have been topping up their gold reserves.

Shrewd investors have been on the right side of this move. I am certainly not alone when I say that gold isn’t going up, so much as fiat currencies are going down. To my mind, paper currencies have been way over-valued for quite some time, and investors are realising it. In a sense, gold is nothing more than a short on paper currency.
Our academic friends tell us that gold should have gradually adjusted upwards over the last forty years. All the time that banks printed paper currency, gold should have gone up to reflect all the new notes in circulation.
But it didn’t! Gold stayed low for decades as faith in paper grew.
But with the credit crisis that faith has been shattered. And gold is now being pushed to centre-stage as a global reserve currency. Not because of central planners, but despite them.
In fact, compared to gold, paper currencies aren’t the only assets that are deflating…
Investing in gold has been good advice for ten years now. And readers that heeded the advice will have made a few quid out of it.
But gold investing isn’t so much about making wealth as preserving it. As investors, we can play the gold market in the same way that the central banks do. We can use it to save wealth.
In fact, we can do even better than the central banks. The banks are buying bullion to stash in their vaults, and it’s driving the price up. At the moment, the stock market doesn’t seem to believe the shift in gold is sustainable. The price of gold mining stocks doesn’t reflect the explosive moves going on in the bullion markets.
I believe that gold has established a new and sustainable price level. And that means gold stocks look cheap and have the potential for a great upward move.
It’s a robust plan to build exposure that could prove very profitable over the years to come.
If you missed the recent spike in gold, then don’t get mad… get even.
Now is the time to buy gold stocks.

Gold is down 15.5% since this article was published. Not a great place to keep one’s savings. Does Gold have a place in one’s portfolio as an asset allocation tool - probably. Is it a good savings vehicle at any price - probably not.