Is 25% Gold Your Portfolio Sweet Spot? A Data-Driven Deep Dive

In our latest video, Alan Hibbard walks you through over a century of market history — complete with live Excel dashboards — to show how gold can simultaneously boost returns and tame volatility. Here’s a closer look at the five most eye-opening takeaways.  1. Why Gold Truly Belongs in Every Portfolio  Gold isn’t just a hedge against inflation or financial panic—it’s a powerful engine for growth. Drawing on fresh research from Goldman Sachs, Alan shows how even a modest slice of gold can improve your risk-adjusted returns. Over rolling 10-year periods, portfolios with 10–25% gold consistently posted higher Sharpe ratios […]

The Big Beautiful Bullion

Written by: The MacroButler Investors who have done more investing homework than just bingeing Wall Street pundits or tuning into finance soap operas hosted by clueless journalists, will know they basically have two flavours to choose from: contracts and properties. Harry Browne, an economist with a knack for common sense, cooked up the Permanent Portfolio—a no-nonsense, all-weather mix of four uncorrelated assets: stocks, bonds, gold, and cash, each at 25%. Simple, balanced, and built to survive just about any economic circus. On one side we have contracts made of Cash and Bonds which can be seen as IOUs with fancy […]