Why gold remains a valuable hedge for investors

The value of gold as a portfolio back-stop remains hard to beat, even 15% below its last high. And a growing number of investors are now choosing outright ownership, writes Adrian Ash.

A little less than 12 months ago, the world's biggest financial players suddenly found they could not turn some $1.3 trillion of their assets into cash.

These assets bonds backed by US home-buyers with low (or no) incomes had become utterly illiquid. No one would buy or lend against them, not at any price. And an asset you can't sell or borrow against is worth precisely nothing.

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