Skol, If you had invested your $215000 in a Gold index or at...

Skol,

If you had invested your $215000 in a Gold index or at least, a handful of solid gold mining companies back in 1986 then by now you certainly would have made far in excess of a 6 fold gain.

If you include dividend reinvestment, then your gain would have been even greater.

I don't think anyone on here is genuinely advocating that investing 100% of your net wealth in physical gold is a good idea, I don't think it is. However, investing in Gold companies that are producing gold and leveraged to the upside potential in a gold price movement makes way more sense that real estate.

Real estate the world over and especially Australia is ridiculously overvalued, Gold is not overvalued.

Cheers
Ivan