In the wake of the credit crunch signs for pawnbrokers have suddenly appeared out of nowhere, it’s almost impossible to move without seeing advertising for someone who wants to buy your gold from you, but why gold in particular? Gold has for thousands of years been one of the main currencies in the world, until the start of the 19th century the gold standard was the basis for our international monetary... 

Gold:  An Investor’s Story by Julia Banda For a good number of years I dealt in stocks and shares and a little Forex trading, and then I went into property investment. I was confident that things would go well and so I sold most of my shares, took the money I’d made on the foreign exchange markets, and started building a property portfolio. Ten years ago, investing in property for the by to let... 

1. Gold is a solid physical investment like buying a house - it won’t disappear overnight like a company could go bankrupt on the stock market. 2.  Gold will always be desired, always wanted, always needed. Sure prices my fluctuate but in the end Gold is Gold and you should always have some in your portfolio of investments because long term Gold will come out on top. 3. You can directly...