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Starting 2025 with gold

We are off to a bumpy start.

First, the markets reacted positively, welcoming Trump’s announcements about AI and other related private sector investments. The S&P soared to almost a new all-time high. Almost…

Then came DeepSeek, the much-hyped Chinese large language model that does AI better and cheaper. Suddenly, the viability of the recent U.S. AI investment bubble came into question, and the big tech stocks came crashing down.

Eventually, the shock to the Nasdaq subsided, only to be followed by weekend announcements regarding 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico.

Monday opened with the S&P 500 futures down 1.88%, which is relatively small considering…

What is an investor to do?

Our strategies have answered that question based on data.

The answer has been to hedge equity portfolios with gold. This month was a rare occasion where our well-diversified and lower-beta Top 3 strategies outperformed the SPY.

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