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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rono, post: 1613326, member: 6492&quot;]Wow,&nbsp; sorry that I&#039;ve missed this thread.&nbsp;&nbsp; First off, thanks to Juan for starting it.&nbsp; Investing in pm&#039;s has long been an area of keen interest to me.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Most PM mutual funds are exclusively investing in mining stocks.&nbsp; Toqueville is an exception and I&#039;ve owned it taxable for well over a decade.&nbsp; PermPort is not a pm fund but a fund of fund master fixed allocation variation of what was ideated by Harry Browne <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-Safe_Investing" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-Safe_Investing" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-Safe_Investing</a>.&nbsp; Supposedly, this fund will weather all storms.&nbsp; You&#039;ll have to do your own d/d but I have about 10% in each of our accounts (deferred, exempt and taxable).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve also owned PCRIX in a deferred acct for years, but not for PM&#039;s.&nbsp; In my deferred acct, I&#039;ve got CEF, SIL and GDXJ.&nbsp; And I&#039;ve still got my SLW if for no other reason than it was my first Home Run.&nbsp; I took profits when it first started to crack a bit and it&#039;s fallen back to the mid-30&#039;s, but when you&#039;re buying it around $4 . . . </p><p><br /></p><p>These are securities and traditional investments.&nbsp; Everyone should have some.&nbsp; That said, I am also of the school that everyone should have some physical bullion.&nbsp; All told, I think folks should have anywhere from 5% ==&gt;&gt; ?&nbsp; where ever your heart rests easy.&nbsp; My grandsons have their stuffed animal &#039;bed buddies&#039;.&nbsp; Whelp, my gold and silver are my bed buddies.&nbsp; Folks need to store it somewhere that allows them to rest easy.&nbsp; I&#039;ve always said, you could take a tube of AGE&#039;s and hide it in the oatmeal box.&nbsp; ~$38K?&nbsp; Buy a 1000z ingot of silver an paint it black and use it as a door stop.&nbsp; Or, get a big safe or a SDB at the local bank.&nbsp; Whatever makes you happy.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t like gold coins, you can do jewelry.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I do have to mention is something I read several years ago from the Elder Baron Rothschild - that to preserve your wealth, you needed to keep 1/3 in securities, 1/3 in real estate and 1/3 in rare art.&nbsp; Feel free to define the latter as you wish, but it doesn&#039;t mean Beanie Babies.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>and so it goes,</p><p><br /></p><p>peace,</p><p><br /></p><p>rono[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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