Gold Equity Risk Rises
John Robertson
PortfolioDirect
The speed of the rise in gold equity prices suggests caution should be exercised in joining the rush. Since the end of December 2015, the gold bullion price has risen 22% although, unsurprisingly, gold equity prices have been highly leveraged to this bullion price move. The Philadelphia Gold and Silver equity price index, for example, has risen 105%. The ASX All Ordinaries gold equity price index has risen 57%. On Friday, the Philadelphia price index closed 71% above its 200 day moving average (see chart). Since 1985, there has only been one single day on which the deviation has been (slightly) more pronounced. In April 1987, the gold price rose 6% over a fortnight while the equity index rose 28% before tumbling 13% as the gold price was still heading some 7% higher toward its peak price of US$475/oz . As in 1987, the balance of risks, even in the event the gold price moves higher, has tilted against newly entering equity investors.
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John Robertson is Chief Investment Strategist for PortfolioDirect a provider of resource sector investment stock ratings and portfolio strategies for mining and oil and gas investors. He has worked as a policy economist, corporate business strategist and investment market professional for over 30 years after starting his career as a Commonwealth Treasury economist in Canberra. Since being Australia's top-rated commodities analyst and chief economist at one of Australia' leading stockbroking firms, he has advised companies across the mining, consumer products, IT and biotech sectors on their equity market relations. He leads the firm's investment evaluation and security structuring activities on behalf of the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board (ASSOB), the world's first equity 'crowdfunding' investment platform. John Robertson discusses the interaction of mining and investment markets in his weekly 'From the Capital' column in Mining Journal.
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John Robertson
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John Robertson is Chief Investment Strategist for PortfolioDirect a provider of resource sector investment stock ratings and portfolio strategies for mining and oil and gas investors. He has worked as a policy economist, corporate business...
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John Robertson
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John Robertson is Chief Investment Strategist for PortfolioDirect a provider of resource sector investment stock ratings and portfolio strategies for mining and oil and gas investors. He has worked as a policy economist, corporate business...
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