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Knowledge is power, particularly when it comes to investments. From leading numismatists to economic and trend analysts, Blanchard’s experts provide clear, compelling gold investing research and analysis.
Rare Coins: Preserving Wealth in a Low-Rate, Weak-Dollar, Volatile Financial Environment
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Latest Research From BERU
Despite the recent downturn in the price of gold, Blanchard and Company does not see any change in market fundamentals or the global economy that should be driving it in that direction on a long-term basis. Investors should look at the current consolidation and dip in gold's price as an opportunity to add to their long-term positions. We think traders are viewing the current equities markets through rose-colored glasses and that the growing bubble is in stocks - not gold. Any additional unanticipated downward moves in gold will give investors who want to preserve and grow their wealth the opportunity to obtain the precious metal at value prices. [ Read more… ]April 6, 2012
The Federal Open Market Committee statement issued on Jan. 25 essentially guarantees that investors holding interest-bearing accounts will receive close to zero returns on those funds for the next several years. In promising to keep the target range for the Fed funds rate at zero to 0.25% through late 2014, the Federal Reserve has ensured that interest-bearing accounts are now dead money -- and will be for years to come. Figuring in the real rate of inflation, the next five to six years will see funds left in interest-bearing accounts lose 30% or more of their buying power. [ Read more… ]March 1, 2012
Bull market has strong support: Gold has been in a bull market for more than 10 years, and we expect it to continue for many years into the future for numerous reasons -- including global economic decline and uncertainty, currency devaluation, and basic supply-and-demand fundamentals. [ Read more… ]
February 1, 2012
NEW ORLEANS (December 12, 2011) - Blanchard and Company, Inc. has placed the world's most valuable rare gold coin for a record $7.395 million, adding to its resume and legacy as America's leading numismatic and precious metals firm. [ Read more… ]January 5, 2012
Gold has gone from an average annual price of $271 per ounce in 2001 to more than $1,700 today. Those of our clients who stayed out of the gold market in 2000 and 2001, at our direction, saved themselves from losses. Those who got back into the market in 2002, as we recommended, have substantially increased their wealth. We were right then; we're just as confident that we're right today when we say we can make even more money for our clients who invest in rare coins. [ Read more… ]December 1, 2011
The top 30 coins that Blanchard and Company has placed in the past year boast a value of almost $7 million. In contrast, the top 30 coins placed over the same period in 2006-07 — a robust period for rare coins before the 2008 financial crisis — were valued at just over $5.5 million. No longer fooled by paper assets, wealthy investors are looking for alternative investments. And while gold has been a great addition to investment portfolios, ultra-rare coins now offer a better investment opportunity. [ Read more… ]November 17, 2011
"Simply put, asset diversification means investing in different asset classes whose patterns of return are different from one another, thereby helping to reduce a portfolio's overall risk. When one asset class in the portfolio happens to go down, another (uncorrelated) asset class in the portfolio (such as gold) should go up. Since it is negatively correlated to other asset classes, gold is an excellent diversifier that can also enhance portfolio returns." [ Read more… ]
November 2, 2011
The last time Wall Street got involved in rare coins in a major way was in March 1989, when the American Rare Coin Fund LP was organized - with an affiliate of Kidder, Peabody & Co. as its general partner - to buy and sell U.S. rare coins. Rare coins went up almost 100% before the end of the year. Some coins tripled in value - and more! And all of this occurred even as the price of gold was falling like a brick for most of the year, going from $410 at the start of the year to $360 by October. Wealthy individuals who had invested in the market for several years were the prime beneficiaries of these gains in rare coins. [ Read more… ]September 7, 2011
U.S. downgrade now looms The debt ceiling will be raised by $2.5 trillion dollars, according to the deal nearing finalization in Washington. The U.S. government will be allowed to borrow and spend $2.5 trillion more than it takes in through revenue. The U.S. will see its top credit rating slashed from AAA to AA by Moody's and S&P, most experts think. How could it not? The U.S. balance sheet will look worse tomorrow than it does today. [ Read more… ]
August 2, 2011
Numismatic investors who buy rare coins now while they're comparatively cheap could see their patience rewarded, big-time, according to Blanchard and Company Chairman and CEO Donald W. Doyle, Jr., who issued this mid-year assessment of the rare coin market to the firm's account executives: [ Read more… ]August 1, 2011
August 2 is the deadline the U.S. faces to raise its debt ceiling or risk potential default. Whether or not the ceiling is raised, gold is the only asset that will benefit either way. If the debt ceiling is not raised and economic chaos ensues, gold will benefit immediately and for some time. If the debt ceiling is raised, that gives Washington the ability to spend more money, which by definition, is inflationary – also bullish for gold. Gold is an asset that truly is in a win-win situation. Expect some volatility, but in the long run, gold wins.  [ Read more… ]July 28, 2011
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