15-20 Years Period Return : Gold 5%, Equity 15%...!

Mr. U. K. Sinha, Chairman, SEBI saying that gold, over a 15 to 20 year-period delivered return of 5 to 6% against 15% delivered by equity investing.

On reading the news item, one of my investors called me & asked whether the claim is right.

I told him that inflation adjusted return of gold is still poor and is about 4% over 35 years.

Mr. Suresh Parthasarathy, CFP, Chennai

Often during my asset allocation sessions, individuals fond of this asset class raise such a point: that gold & real estate (House, plots of land) are superior asset classes and they will stick to it. 

Last week, at my investment management session at BPCL in at Coimbatore, many of the employees were no different.

Such investors may be right that, in terms of value, real estate could have given good appreciation.

 

What they miss out is that they fail to notice the compounded annualized return of gold and real estate. In both the cases, their holding period was for long term, as against their experience with the equity market.

It is clear that the volatility make investors nervous while investing in equity market. I want to emphasis that for better wealth creation follow asset allocation.

After my full-day session in Coimbatore—I’ve had more than 60 sessions for companies in the past few years many BPCL  employees who were wedded to a particular asset class spoke about how much they could have earned if only they  had spread their investments.

Here’s the data compiled by one of my friends on asset classes over 35 years. Go through it and let me know what you think about

Suresh Parthasarathy,

Registered Investment Advisor,(SEBI),

Columnist,

Founder,Myassetsconsolidation.com

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