Bridgewater Tycoon’s Gold Shilling Is Insanely Bullish for Bitcoin
When billionaire investor and hedge fund manager Ray Dalio speaks, people listen. After all, Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund firm with assets under management of $160 billion. So when Dalio said that gold will become a top investment during a “paradigm shift” in global markets, the price of the yellow metal spiked. But he probably missed the fact that gold will have competition from bitcoin.
Ray Dalio says gold will be a top investment during upcoming 'paradigm shift' for global markets https://t.co/1gpoxtRjdK
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Ray Dalio Bets on Gold but Forgets Bitcoin
Dalio wrote in a LinkedIn post that too many people have invested in stocks and equities, which is why this asset class runs the risk of witnessing a drop in returns. In order to balance out their portfolio, investors will turn to assets such as gold. He wrote:
“Additionally, for reasons I will explain in the near future, most investors are underweighted in such assets, meaning that if they just wanted to have a better balanced portfolio to reduce risk, they would have more of this sort of asset. For this reason, I believe that it would be both risk-reducing and return-enhancing to consider adding gold to one’s portfolio.”
So Dalio advocates that gold is the right way to go for anyone looking to diversify their portfolio at a time when most of the world seems to be invested in equities. But this is not the only reason why Dalio believes gold will witness a surge in inflows.
According to the hedge fund veteran, global conflicts and the depreciating value of money will force a flight to safety. Gold will be the asset of choice for investors looking to store their wealth at a time when central banks are busy keeping interest rates low.
Dalio’s comments would have made a lot of sense a decade ago when bitcoin was just born. After all, gold is universally considered to be a safe-haven asset that investors buy to protect their wealth in difficult times. But bitcoin is gaining the confidence of institutional investors, and there are quite a few who believe that the cryptocurrency can replace gold as a safe-haven asset.
