CEF News and Press, Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust Units From 02/06/23

Summary The CEF trust holds gold and silver bullion in a 65/35 ratio. Precious metal prices benefited from a reduction in the Fed's pace of interest rate hikes, with gold rallying over $300/oz in recent months. However, gold investors have gotten complacent and overly optimistic, fo...

Summary FOF takes an approach of investing in other funds, primarily closed-end funds but also exchange-traded funds, too. This makes it a one-stop shop for instant and broad diversification across a diverse pool of different asset classes, sectors and industries. Unfortunately, at ...

2022 has been a difficult year for financial assets with the traditional 60/40 portfolio suffering one of its worst annual performances on record, states Jesse Felder of TheFelderReport.com. For further details see: Have the Winds of Change Begun to Blow

Summary 2022 has been a difficult year for financial assets with the traditional 60/40 portfolio suffering one of its worst annual performances on record. There are times to own precious metals and then there are times to own stocks and bonds. We should expect precious metals to out...

Summary CEF is trading at nearly a 5% discount to NAV. Even though precious metals paper prices moved lower last week, the metal equities rallied and bullion premiums are higher than they were a month ago. The market irrationalities are buy opportunities. In recent w...

Summary Not many assets are in the green in 2022 as sentiment has soured. Yet, in this environment, USD has rallied. This has been the result of the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates and also a move by investors to perceive safe haven assets. With such a strong move in the...

I have had a small allocation to gold and silver through CEF for a while. This has provided some relative stability in my portfolio over time. While I don't love the fact that metals are non-income producing assets, there are other benefits to owning them. Gold in particular has b...

Step 1: Offer a premium fixed price for gold to domestic Russian banks who can't sell their gold internationally due to sanctions, encouraging domestic gold flows into Bank of Russia. Step 2: Strengthen the Ruble internationally by insisting on energy payments in Rubles, turning fixed...

Gold and silver investments have been strong performers since December, and this trend may continue for years. Record negative real yields in the U.S. bond market will not be corrected quickly or easily, encouraging investors to purchase precious metals. Gold/silver prices and val...

Gold and Silver continue to offer a reasonable hedge against equity downturns. If inflation moderates, these metals tend to be strong performing assets. There is a risk, however, that if inflation stays too hot, the values could take a big hit. Silver will benefit from an increase...