Introduction to Gold and Silver in your SMSF Balancing your portfolio through diversification of assets that are not correlated to each other is the basis of portfolio theory, with the goal of reducing the overall risk of a portfolio. Shares and property are known to be correlated (they move upwards together and crash together too), whereas gold is known as a “safe haven” asset, meaning that people flock towards it in times of fear, sending the price upwards. It is historically uncorrelated to other asset classes, as is shown in the table showing stock market returns versus gold returns during stock market crashes in our Investor Centre. Do check our Silver Collection in Bullions here: https://adamsbullion.com/collections/silver