Gold

[DodgyAccountant]

I trust our government not to take other peoples wealth in the name of "fairness".

That is either tongue in cheek or you are mad.

[RichardCranium]

I trust our government not to take other peoples wealth in the name of "fairness".

You don't need to worry about that. I take it your gold is in one of those nice, safe, gold deposit places?

If you leave it in the bank, there's every chance the Government will nationalise it

the Government of the country that happens to be holding the gold you 'own', or the Government of registration of the company that holds the ownership certificates

[TimberWolf]

Not to worry, the companies holding paper gold on investors behalf would have run off with it long before the government can confiscate it.

[RichardCranium]

Not to worry, the companies holding paper gold on investors behalf would have run off with it long before the government can confiscate it.

You know, they probably did ages ago. They've probably used it as a form of futures market and sold it multiple times and re-invested the income into something else.

It'll probably turn out the chavs wearing £15 Argos jewellery have more gold than most serious investors!

[DimPrawn]

Next you'll be telling me I can't trust our bankers!

[TimberWolf]

Gold has dipped in sterling if anyone is interested. Just bought another £10K worth, awaiting further bigger falls.

Did you buy from BullionVault? Looking at the graph, you may have caught the bottom of a little trough. I may think about buying some next week, again.