WHY RETIREMENT SAVERS ARE TURNING TO GOLD

Amid market volatility and a potential "super bubble," some retirement savers see the yellow metal as an opportunity for profit and wealth preservation.

WITH STOCK AND BOND MARKETS CONTINUING TO EXPERIENCE VOLATILITY, both institutional and retail investors are increasing their allocations to precious metals, considering them a haven or a source of long-term value—or both.

Recent losses in tech companies are just the latest indication of a super bubble,” where prices significantly deviate from the historical trend, says Sean Kelly, CEO of Red Rock Secured, an El Segundo, Calif.-based company that enables investors to store gold and silver in individual retirement accounts IRAs].

“It’s scary that bubbles in stocks, bonds, cryptocurrencies, and real estate are coming undone at once,” Kelly says. They have been driven to unsustainable heights by the Federal Reserve's unprecedented creation of liquidity.”