"Gold Investment"

Before we start talking about gold investment, we should know about investment. "Investing is essentially a sacrifice made in the present to expect future rewards." (Tanuwidjaja, 2009).  Investment is necessary because we have a financial situation for the future. Nevertheless, many people are still hesitant to start investing. The reason is they are not ready to do things to keep investing and take risks if something goes wrong. 

But there is a kind of thing that can be used for investment, it is gold. Gold is a precious metal that has been used as a means of payment from the beginning. Now, gold has been used as a financial standard in various countries. Therefore gold becomes one example of luxury goods that can diversify into long-term investment goods as well. For more information about gold investment, we will discuss it in this essay.

There are many reasons why gold is an option in investing. Nobel Prize winner, Robert A Mundell once gave predictions about gold "Gold will be part of the structure of the international monetary system for the 21st century" (Tanuwidjaja, 2009). Another reason to use gold as an investment, it has a stable value, it is immune to inflation and easy to manage it. 

Gold is not a passive investment because of its golden nature that can be liquidated and can be mortgaged at any time, this being one of the reasons why gold can be said to be manageable and this investment is suitable for other busy people. Based on the benefits of gold investments that have been discussed, it should be a good choice for what kind of investment is needed and not wasting your time.

In gold investments, there are several types of gold investments that can be an option to invest, such as gold trading, physical gold, gold mortgage and others. But that usually becomes an option in investing is trading gold online and physical gold. Physical gold investment is an investment that has been commonly preferred by many people for a long time with a system of purchasing gold in the form of bars or jewelry which is then purchased, stored and sold when necessary or when gold is at a high price. 

Then trading gold online is a type of gold investment that is in great demand recently. The system to invest is almost same as physical gold, but the different is the medium when you buy gold or sell gold. Of all the ways that can be done to invest in gold, all definitely have better advantages and disadvantages to choose is where an efficient way to invest in gold.

In addition to having many advantages and have a kind of gold investment, gold investment also has risks in practice. The first risk is that if you want to sell gold jewelry to a gold shop, you will have little trouble selling it, because not all gold shops want to buy your gold, gold sellers are afraid if the gold purchased from you is not for sale. 

the next risk is storage, storing gold at home has a big risk because it is potentially stolen, lost etc. The risk of investing in gold is still very likely to be avoided by choosing alternatives that we can make to reduce the various risks that exist.

To face the future we must start preparing to face the possibility that will happen later. The possibilities that occur in the future will certainly not be separated from finance. Because finance will not always be stable for the economy especially when there is a surge in prices during inflation. 

Saving and investing can be part of planning for the future. Gold investment can be an option to invest because of its nature of inflation and even its price is increasing as the inflation that occurs. Regardless of what type of investment you will choose, all types of investments have advantages, weaknesses and can be risky. Make sure you have chosen the right investment for any type of investment.

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