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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Despite the lure of the shiny metal, statistics show that gold has outperformed returns from equities over a 5 year period only once in the past 3 decades. Hence, while gold should have a well deserved place in the long term portfolio for its inflation hedging properties, one cannot deny the importance of equities, which depending upon one's risk appetite must be a much larger proportion.


Data source: HDFC Mutual Fund sOURCE:EQUITYMASTER

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