Precious metals are more helpful than ever before when it comes to maintaining capital, and among the metals that are sought after for their reliability are gold and silver bullion. People have valued and protected their gold and silver throughout history — as some of the most valuable commodities, they have always been used and documented as currency. Companies now exist that will provide clients with the most stable financial protection using gold, silver, and diamonds as hard assets.
Gold has a negative correlation with traditional portfolios. For one thing, when the stock market crisis occurred in 2008, gold was helpful in turning it around. While other assets such as stocks, bonds, hedge funds and real estate plunged in huge nose dives, precious metals like gold and silver bullion saved the market. Throughout 2008 to 2013, such metals gained an average of 32% per year. Bullion is a very simple investment to make because one simply buys a block of gold and then ensures that it remains safe and protected until one is ready to liquidate its value.