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  • This question prompted me to weigh my wedding ring, seek out the current price of gold per gram, multiply by the mass in grams, convert from $ to £, divide by my total portfolio value and multiply by 100 to come up with a figure of ~ 0.05%

    Then I remembered the sodding thing is platinum, not white gold. So ~ 0.00%
  • sienew
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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.
    I'm curious, where are you buying these gold coins?
  • Alistair31
    Alistair31 Posts: 981 Forumite
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    edited 17 August 2022 at 9:40AM
    One gold sovereign per year. More because I like looking at them than anything else. 

    Less than 1%
  • MEM62
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    None.MarcoM said:
    How much gold (etf or other) do you tend to hold as a percentage of your overall portofolio?
    None.
  • george4064
    george4064 Posts: 2,933 Forumite
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    None, and don’t see that changing ever.
    "If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes” Warren Buffett

    Save £12k in 2025 - #024 £1,450 / £15,000 (9%)
  • Albermarle
    Albermarle Posts: 28,895 Forumite
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    I have a precious metals ETF, which is mainly gold ( but also silver, palladium and platinum) and bought about a year ago as a way of diversifying away from/reducing bonds %. As of today is 14% up.
    Including gold in WP funds, probably accounts for approx 3% of my portfolio.  
  • One gold sovereign per year. More because I like looking at them than anything else. 

    Less than 1%
    Where do you buy them from?
    "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
  • thegentleway
    thegentleway Posts: 1,095 Forumite
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    zero percent
    No one has ever become poor by giving
  • jimjames
    jimjames Posts: 18,867 Forumite
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    MarcoM said:
    Hi,

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

    Thanks
    0.0000000% (needed to increase characters)
    Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.
  • Will buy solid gold if / when the China-Taiwan-US war kicks off.
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