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Creating the non equity part of your portfolio
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After reading the suggestions here and on a thread on the forums over at citywire, I am leaning towards a small amount in property and splitting the rest of the 40% between Capital Gearing Trust and VLS20. I may look at gold if the price drops. I think that should give me a good spread.0
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After reading the suggestions here and on a thread on the forums over at citywire, I am leaning towards a small amount in property and splitting the rest of the 40% between Capital Gearing Trust and VLS20. I may look at gold if the price drops. I think that should give me a good spread.
That seems sensible....now how difficult was that?...not very. The trick is now to hang on tight if interest rates go up.“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”0 -
I'm not a gold bug, but don't discount gold just as its had a run up. I've been putting 5% away for years and its worked very well to counter volatility without undue downwards movements, although to be fair I did start at the bottom.
its almost at the point now where its 14% of that particular tranche so I may rebalance and the recommendations here are interesting, although I am slightly limited in the funds/trusts I can have in my corporate schemeI think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine0 -
My view in holding CGT is that they have already decided an appropriate proportion of gold to hold, and that's what I pay them to do, so why should I skew that by having a separate holding?0
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My view in holding CGT is that they have already decided an appropriate proportion of gold to hold, and that's what I pay them to do, so why should I skew that by having a separate holding?
Maybe hold more if CGT's holding of 1% is felt to be not enough. 1% of a portfolio will have almost negligible diversification benefits.0
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