Forum Archive Index - December 2003

["Soarer2" <soarer2@xtra.co.nz>]

so what does your investment in RBD make you Snoopy, a below average Cantab
?



----- Original Message -----
From: <tennyson@caverock.net.nz>
To: <sharechat@sharechat.co.nz>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [sharechat] CONGRATS


> Hi Allan,
>
> >
> > To all the GOLD Guru's who contribute to this channel a hearty
> > congratulations  on gold's smashing the $400/oz. level.  Currently
> > $403.40 12:55 pm, New York time.
> >
>
> At the start of the year gold was around $US278.  So it has risen 45%
> in USD terms.
>
> And in the same time period the $NZ has risen from US50c to US64c,
> a rise of 28%.  In NZD terms an investor holding gold would have
> gained 13%.   Yet the NZX accumulation index has gained some 20%
> during the year.
>
> So sorry Allan and the gold gurus.   All you have done is underperform
> the NZX index.  Not a performance to crow about.   It is yet more
> evidence that gold as a metal, for the average New Zealander,  is a
> below average 'investment'.     Even that is being charitable as gold
> metal has no income stream attached to it, which in my view makes it
> pure speculation- not an investment at all.
>
> SNOOPY
>
> discl: no gold
>
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