Carson Yesca had done a hundred year study of the use of gold in a drawdown portfolio. He determined that adding 10 to 15% in gold into a simple stock bond portfolio would improve its safe withdrawal rate. I do not know of anyone who has been able to actually contradict this research or has any legitimate criticism of it. But I do hear a lot of illegitimate reasons for not applying it and not using it as a best practice.

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