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Bullion World | Issue 09 | January 2022

essential at this time. It was usually  an independent company -             returns can be expected in
however Gold that is always front       Auctus Metals Portfolios. As a       precious metals. In fact the
and centre in their mind, but other     partnership, we further developed    outlook over the next 2 to 3 years
than that, no real research or          the systemization of my earlier      looks incredibly exciting from an
market analysis was applied to this     mathematics and produced a series    investment perspective in this asset
asset class.                            of extremely advanced algorithmic    class. Since 2000 (to the present
                                        models along with bespoke            day) Gold has outperformed the
The bullion market as a whole,          software database systems and        S&P 500 and the Dow Jones stock
generally did not offer any advice      front end platforms that allowed us  indices. Since 1970, Gold has
on the considerations above, other      to manage our clients' physically    outperformed the Dow Jones index
than to buy Gold and and to buy         held portfolios of metals on an      and slightly fallen behind the S&P
Silver (often simple hard selling!)     active and ongoing basis.            500. If one takes into consideration
and I realised that this presented a                                         the fact that this includes the huge
tremendous opportunity to change        We understand that when it           bear market corrections in Gold
the status quo. Coming with 35          comes to portfolio diversification,  from 1980 to 2002 and 2011 to
years of trading experience and         precious metals play a significant   2016, it's really quite remarkable
a deep financial background from        role, but again, no great return     how well Gold has performed
investment banking, I could clearly     is expected from it in the due       versus the financialised paper world
identify a substantial gap in the       course of time. Specifically, Gold   of real productivity gains, debt
market, since clients desperately       in the precious metals sector        expansion and leverage that has
wanted unbiased research as well        works as insurance or stabilises     pushed stocks to today's levels.
as active portfolio advice within the   the portfolio when the market
precious metal space.                   goes through fluctuation. So         From January 2013 to today,
                                        share some insights on how           stocks have outperformed Gold,
At this juncture, IPM Group             to diversify precious metals         but I would suggest that the
partnered with the Gold Bullion         holdings specifically, which gives   present climate is screaming for an
Australia Group and together we         an investor maximum benefit?         enormous portfolio re-weighting
pulled the portfolio methodology        I would disagree wholeheartedly      opportunity and we have already
out of IPM Group and built              with the premise that no great       started to see many of the world's

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