LONDON, 9 January 2015 – Finance site ThisIsMoney – part of the world's most visited newspaper site, the Daily Mail – today presents exclusive research from BullionVault into how adding gold to a standard portfolio can cut risk without hurting returns.
"Markets have already had a tough ride in the first days of 2015," says the lengthy report, "and all this could hit your pensions and investments.
"But according to BullionVault, you could reduce your losses by upping your exposure to gold."
ThisIsMoney includes a table of BullionVault's key findings, showing the impact for UK investors of adding gold to the commonly advised portfolio split 60% shares, 40% bonds.
The detailed report also highlights BullionVault's updated table of annual asset class performance for UK investors since 1975, plus its latest Gold Investor Index – a sentiment guide built solely using BullionVault trading data – and a suvey of BullionVault users as to how they use gold to balance risk in their other investments.
"There is plenty of uncertainty that could see investors flocking to gold during the next 12 months," says ThisIsMoney.
"The key risk for UK investors in 2015 could turn out to be the Pound," the report adds, going onto quote BullionVault analysis of how gold has tended to rise sharply when Sterling falls badly on the FX market.
Read the full story here at ThisIsMoney:
There's plenty to worry markets in 2015, so could gold help your investments shine this year?
