1. This is a pertinent question which comes to the mind of every retail investor that "How much gold I need to own? and the answer for same lies in the fact that gold is an instrument which is being used to hedge against the macroeconomic policy blunders and thus for the safer side one has to invest in bullion market to take care of the unexpected.

2. Thus to hit the nail on the head one needs to at least have 10% of investments in the gold of your total portfolio. One can invest in physical gold, gold bars or can trade in ETFs and as last resort one can invest in gold mining securities.

3. To sum it up world wide investors must have at least 10% investments in bullion related instruments as one can call this investment also as an insurance to protect one against current policies by the American government and the Fed which are liable to be inflationary.

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