Gold Market Cap
$11.8 Trillion
Compound Annual Growth Rate since 2000
9.24%
Returns During Times of High Inflation (>3%)
15.35%
Gold
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S&P 500
Gold - A Unique, Safe Harbor
Gold provides the only safe harbor for your investments that has withstood the test of millennia.
Consider the crucial need for reserves or a “safety margin” set aside for a rainy day. Now consider how under-reserved the world economy is with global debt levels at an all-time highs.
In addition to fulfilling the need for reserves, gold offers interesting benefits and attributes that are unique compared to stocks and real estate, which often move up or down with the economy. Gold is the ultimate safe haven asset.
Example Portfolio Returns since 1971
In August, 1971, the United States ended the Bretton Woods system and the Dollar officially became a fiat currency. The company backing Vaulted, McAlvany Financial Group, was founded in 1972.
100% U.S. Stocks
Compound Annual Growth: 9.56%
Maximum Drawdown: -51.12%
$1,000 invested in 1971 is now worth $87,654
25% U.S. Bonds, 75% U.S Stocks
Compound Annual Growth: 9.89%
Maximum Drawdown: -38.83%
$1,000 invested in 1971 is now worth $69,822
25% Gold, 75% U.S. Stocks
Compound Annual Growth: 10.10%
Maximum Drawdown: -36.36%
$1,000 invested in 1971 is now worth $111,823
Physical Gold is Real Money
Gold has been a medium of value exchange for thousands of years. The world currently functions on the global fiat currency paradigm, although individuals, institutions, and governments still use gold as money. Fiat money cannot provide a safe harbor for value because it is a system created and maintained by governments.
Gold has vastly outperformed all major fiat currencies over time. The dollar and other currencies can be easily manipulated, and are extremely vulnerable to devaluation.
Contrast this against the historical truth that people have exchanged precious metals and goods for millennia—treating those metals as money.
Compared to government currencies, cryptocurrencies, or industrial metals such as copper and uranium, gold is the most exchangeable and compact value storage medium. It is the physical properties of gold and the universal global demand for the metal which enable this distinction.
Gold is Time-Tested
Gold is the best medium for securing your savings because it represents value that people across the globe know and trust.
Gold is durable, tangible, recognizable, and liquid (tradable) throughout the world. From the Roman Empire in 118 AD, to frontier railroad town saloons in 1888, to Middle Eastern markets in the 21st century, gold is the most consistent and honored medium exchange of value.
When you secure a portion of your net worth in gold, you join billions of people throughout ancient and modern history who believe gold is the most time-tested means of maintaining financial security.
An investment in gold completes your portfolio.
Gold Provides Financial Freedom
Gold provides the ability to conduct business outside the banking sector, privately, in a trusted fashion, virtually anywhere in the world.
It is not part of a government-controlled financial system or fiat currency, and it becomes even more exchangeable when currencies and countries fail.
In this way, an investment in gold truly completes your portfolio while at the same time giving you access to the stored value whenever you desire.
Gold Allows You to be Your Own Bank
Banking system withdrawal restrictions, bail-ins, and bank failures are not concerns for the gold owner. You can buy and sell gold at your convenience and only have your money temporarily in a fiat currency, if you wish. Vaulted assets are fully insured and stored in the most secure vault in the world.
Legacy & Inter-Generational Wealth Transfer
Passing on your wealth to the next generation could not be simpler than with physical metals.
It is the age-old method of assuring heirs have a tangible store of value that is not a paper promise or tied to any government or debt obligations. No one wants investments they are unable to get out of on a rainy day.
Hedging Against the Market
Gold is the secret to building an investment portfolio that not only survives—but actually benefits from—the market’s ups and downs.
If you invested $1,000 in the U.S. stock market 50 years ago, with dividend reinvestment your money would have grown to approximately $87,654.
If you followed run-of-the-mill financial advice and invested 75% in stocks and 25% in bonds, your portfolio would have less risk, but returns would be almost 20% lower. $1,000 invested 50 years ago with annual rebalancing would be worth just $69,822.
The same $1,000 invested in a portfolio of 75% stocks and 25% gold 50 years ago, rebalanced annually to the same 75/25 ratio, would be worth more than $111,823.
The rebalancing process forces “selling high” and “buying low” of each portfolio basket. Rebalancing across noncorrelated assets such as stocks and gold creates a portfolio that actually benefits from the market’s ups and downs!
10%
Higher Return
Compared to stocks alone, $1,000 invested in a portfolio of 75% stocks and 25% gold 50 years ago, with annual rebalancing, would have at least a 10% higher return. And compared to the conventional 70/30 stocks-and-bonds portfolio, your total return would be more than 40% higher!
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Lower Risk
The other big reason to add gold to your portfolio is its lower volatility, or fewer dramatic ups and downs. Gold is none-correlated with the stock market, so when stocks go down, gold has a tendency to appreciate.
Thus, a balanced portfolio of stocks and gold has a significantly lower risk of a large drop, as illustrated by the example of 2008.
By adding some gold to your portfolio, you can cut your long-term risk almost in half.
Liquidity
Gold is unmatched globally for its liquidity. It can be exchanged for every currency in the world, a point proven regularly by leading investment funds, central banks, and individuals.
Also, gold is the most stable of the precious metals, and it has performed well both in times of deflation and inflation. By owning gold in your Vaulted account, the money is yours to control.
Vaulted
The fundamental justifications for acquiring physical gold as an alternative to the banking system are numerous and far beyond what this page can speak to.
The vehicles and variety of options you can use to accomplish your objectives are numerous also. Vaulted offers you
- ease of buying
- ease of selling
- unrivaled value
- incredibly low costs
- unmatched security
We also have advisors to help unpack the details of gold investing. Experts from America’s foremost precious metals investment firm, McAlvany ICA, are ready to advise users on entry points, trading strategies, and portfolio tactics. Our team members have an average tenure of more than 20 years of experience balancing portfolios, studying commodities markets, and buying & selling gold. They have guided investors in purchasing more than $2.5 billion in precious metals.
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Vaulted is backed by McAlvany Financial Group, one of the largest and longest continuously operating full-service gold brokerage firms in the United States.
