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Gold Investment Is the Ultimate Guide for Tech Investors In 500 Words

Gold Investment Is the Ultimate Guide for Tech Investors In 500 Words

by Jan Skoyles, Editor Mark O’Byrne

Tech is the umbrella word for all things fashionable to invest in right now. Take the recent flotation of Snap Inc. (parent company of teen and narcissists’ favourite app SnapChat), everyone wanted in on the $20 billion flotation.

Snap is likely a sign of a tech bubble that will cost a lot of savers and investors huge amounts of money … again.

Before putting your savings into the likes of SnapInc we think there are some major lessons wannabe investors need to learn. Lessons not just from experienced tech investors but also from gold investment. Lessons which should lead one to consider investing in physical, allocated, segregated gold to secure your portfolio in a world of massive financial bubbles, significant geopolitical uncertainty and huge investment hype.

Is this an investment in a product or an application?

In tech, there are two main things – the product and application.

For example, blockchain is the application, bitcoin is a product. Linux is an application, a website built using Linux is the product. Both blockchain and linux have shown they have endless use-cases and carry significant value in their fields. But the products can vary.

In a similar vein there are many different gold products, whether ETFs, digital gold, gold futures however these all rest on the application of physical gold. However there is much intermediation and they are many tech and legal layers away from the real thing.

In a world of massive technological and systemic risk – as seen this week – why not own the real thing?

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