Special Report

How Much Gold Should You Own? The Effect Of Bullion On Multi-Asset Portfolios

17 Feb 2025

by Xiaoli Tang, Associate Strategist

As gold keeps making new highs, many clients have asked us whether a gold allocation makes sense for their portfolios and, if so, how big that allocation should be. In this report we try to answer these questions from the perspective of investors with eight different home currencies. Specifically, we analyze the following properties of gold: 1) What drives gold? 2) What is gold’s role in a portfolio? 3) How much gold should investors own?

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