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Investing in Gold: The Essential Safe Haven Investment for Every Portfolio (Hardcover)

by Jonathan Spall (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional (1 Jan 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0071603468
  • ISBN-13: 978-0071603461
  • Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.2 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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A timely guide to the “recession-proof” commodity

Every investor values gold, but few deeply understand its unique position in the financial market. Categorized as a “safe-haven” asset, this precious metal can rally by stock-market slides and often increases in value during times of inflation. This comprehensive guide provides you all the iknowledge you need to capitalize in the gold market.

Jonathan Spall, an expert in the precious metals markets, provides a thorough tutorial on one of the world's most valuable assets, from how gold is mined and processed, to market and pricing trends, to its unique position in the marketplace. He also reveals the answers to why gold is presently at record highs and debunks some of the myths surrounding gold.



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I have written the book as an effort to debunk much of the unnecessary mystique that surrounds gold. In doing so I have drawn on my wide-ranging experience in this market to make it understandable and accessible to as many people as possible.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A broad crash course on gold investing., 29 Jul 2009
By Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract.com" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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Gold draws a great deal of comment fueled by fiery passion, and often instigates discourses based on rumor, conspiracy theories and gossip. Allow Jonathan Spall, an expert on precious metals, to disprove the lingering myths about gold with his interesting, helpful little book. While Spall's treatise doesn't quite carry you on a complete tour of gold's role throughout human history, it does usher you down into the mines and through the gold refiner's fire. His ability to explain the basics of the gold trade so clearly may be based on his writing skill, but it also reflects his years of experience explaining these ideas to nonspecialists. The only math he uses involves the simple equations used to calculate gold prices. While you may already be familiar with some of Spall's information, getAbstract recommends his broad introduction to gold to those who are interested in all facets of the prized metal, from its extraction to its sale.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Spall's gold, 29 Dec 2008
By O. Buxton "Olly Buxton" (Highgate, UK) - See all my reviews
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Disclosure: I know Jon Spall, having worked with him for a couple of years and being an enthusiastic subscriber to (and correspondent with) the daily "Barcap Commodity Comment" mailing list which he edits.

Indeed, it's on the strength of that excellent electronic publication (highly recommended if you can get on the mailing list) that I got to know him: It's fascinating and informative but most of all hysterically funny and decidedly un-corporatised overview of the markets (all the more credit to Barclays Capital for sanctioning it) from an excellent fellow with long experience of the markets who happens to be sitting in the front line as it happens. As you can probably imagine has been essential, if excruciating, reading over the last eighteen months as the markets have ritually disemboweled themselves.

No better a time, therefore, to be bringing out a publication extolling the virtues of the traditional last bastion of safety in an uncertain world, gold. Since the abandonment of the gold standard oft dismissed as a fossilised anachronism, in these days of seemingly uniform cratering across asset classes gold, like Keynes, is staging a bit of a revival. Even hedge funds - those that are left, that is - are piling in. And gold is what Jon Spall knows best. He's been in the market for a quarter of a century, and this book distills that learning, and the sort of context that you don't usually get in a business book - there's much learning here on mining techniques, hedging, transport and the history of the market - and with the sort of jaunty tone that Commodity Comment faithful will enjoy - sample excerpt: "the task of explaining the many properties ascribed to gold to an alien would not be easy" - though consciously toned down for sober, old economy, publication. If I had a criticism it would be just that - it doesn't quite give you the full flavour of Jon Spall in all his fairy-at-the-bottom-of-the-garden-shooting glory, but that's very definitely a minor niggle. As the book develops the level of technical detail increases - there's an interesting chapter analysing the current performance of gold in the market turmoil - but the detail is never overwhelming (it hardly could be as the book weighs in at under 200 pages)

Bang up to date with the zeitgeist in including an FAQ as well as a glossary, this is as good a place as any to start if gold is what you're about.

Olly Buxton
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