Real assets are weighing more and more in savings strategies, and there are two fundamental reasons for it: Financial investments are yielding less with interest rates generally low or negative; Savings could be confiscated by banks (BRRD directive) or by insurance companies (Law Sapin II). By “real assets”, savers have real estate and gold first in mind, since the other categories (fine art, collectible cars, agricultural land, etc.) require an expertise and knowledge that cannot be improvised. “Debanking” benefits those two assets, real estate accounting for much more volume than gold. However, savers are often quite confused about gold and real estate. First and foremost, a large number of savers think they actually own gold when their banker buys them paper gold (ETFs or mining stocks), which is a tragic error. Only physical gold held in one’s own name is worthy of interest; the rest are just financial products that can be subjected to market fluctuation...
from GoldBroker.com https://www.goldbroker.com/news/savings-real-estate-is-not-worth-gold-1120
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