'The best time to buy insurance is when you don't need it': Managers increase gold weightings as 'double hedge'

Longest streak of gains since 2011

Tom Eckett
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Managers are backing gold as their safe haven of choice at the start of 2018 as a way of protecting portfolios from event risk and rising inflation expectations, which could pose a threat to the bull run for equity markets.

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