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Jeff Snider: Why hard assets can’t protect you from every crisis

Hard assets can provide protection from many risks, but they don’t exist outside the financial system. When credit contracts and liquidity disappears, even assets that investors consider resilient can face pressure as losses, leverage, and forced selling spread through interconnected...

Greyson Geiler: Is gold returning as a capital asset?

For years, investors have been told to prepare for the moment when mounting debt, monetary intervention, or some other imbalance finally breaks the financial system. Yet the system has repeatedly proven more adaptable than its critics expected. That adaptability may be...

Brent Johnson: What if the broken system keeps working?

Seeing the cracks in the global financial system is easy. Knowing what happens next is much harder. Brent Johnson argues that investors can get into trouble when they mistake an unsustainable system for one that must fail soon. Markets can defy...

Rodrigo Gordillo: Should you trust the market you remember?

Perhaps the most dangerous assumption an investor can make is that the future will behave like the past they personally remember. Rodrigo Gordillo learned that lesson early, and it became the foundation of his investment philosophy. Rather than trying to predict...

Tom Wheelwright: How taxes impact the returns you take home

Most investors are trained to think about returns first and taxes later. Tom Wheelwright argues that separating the two can leave a remarkable amount of wealth on the table. Taxes can amplify an investment’s return just as easily as they can...

Gabriel Nasser: Protecting your gold while it earns ounces

Gold owners often value physical possession precisely because it removes the need to trust someone else. But what happens when that gold is put to work? For Gabriel Nasser, our Chief Asset Assurance Officer, trust alone isn’t good enough. If someone else...

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