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how much gold...

Hi,

How much gold (etf or other) do you tend to hold as a percentage of your overall portofolio?

Thanks
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  • As much as I can get provided the price I pay is significantly less than its value. I've done quite well on buying gold coins over the last few years. I don't suppose my response is helpful for you in any way but we are all different.

  • For me - 1 years worth of expenses in physical coins will be a nice security blanket  :)
  • DannyCarey
    DannyCarey Posts: 193 Forumite
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    A big fat zero..
    "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
  • chucknorris
    chucknorris Posts: 10,795 Forumite
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    I have exactly 0%, and I can't see that ever changing.
    Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop
  • Nebulous2
    Nebulous2 Posts: 5,844 Forumite
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    I got a Krugerrand as a present on the sale of a family business in the 70s. 

    I periodically worry about its location, but to date I've always been able to find it. We would probably be able to survive 5-6 weeks from its sale, though I have no intention of ever selling it. 

    From memory my sisters got dolls. 
  • talexuser
    talexuser Posts: 3,590 Forumite
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    edited 16 August 2022 at 7:04PM
    Me none, my funds, whatever proportion whatever wealth preservation investment trusts have in them, overall below 1%.
  • MX5huggy
    MX5huggy Posts: 7,170 Forumite
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    Less than the value of the watch on my wrist, and that’s a 2 year old middle of the range Garmin. 
  • DannyCarey
    DannyCarey Posts: 193 Forumite
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    I also don't see the appeal at all for a gold ETF - a digital claim on gold, its a bit like fractional reserve banking, open for manipulation and the gold you buy probably doesn't even exist  :D

    If you are going to invest/spend money on gold I would at least want to have it in the form of a coin or something that you can actually look at and appreciate /  easily pass on
    "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
  • bostonerimus
    bostonerimus Posts: 5,617 Forumite
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    I have 0% in my portfolio
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
  • fwor
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    None. No intention to hold any in the foreseeable future either.
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