Creating the non equity part of your portfolio

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  • Ceme3000
    Ceme3000 Posts: 217 Forumite
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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.
  • bostonerimus
    bostonerimus Posts: 5,617 Forumite
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    Ceme3000 wrote: »
    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.
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  • mark55man
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    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 scheme
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  • jamei305
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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?
  • A_T
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    jamei305 wrote: »
    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.
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