Ed Cole

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Merryn Talks Money · Man Group's Ed Cole: How to Adapt Your Portfolio to a Changing World · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

I don't think that the demand from rest of the world central banks for gold has changed.

Part of fragmentation, deglobalization is that people are looking for other reserve assets other than the dollar.

So I don't think that's changed.

So yeah, I think there's some value in gold.

Some flaw and some impetus to move higher.

Maybe the way to question the role of gold is, as we saw in March, is that at various points in time can become a risk on asset rather than a diversifying asset.

So I think it's an interesting asset to have in your portfolio, but it isn't necessarily something reliably that you want to bank on to bail you out when equities are doing badly.

I mean, no.

Other than that, I'm really, really amazed that the amount of policy support crypto has had in the last 16 months.

Never in my imagination would I have conceived of the possibility that it could have that much

policy support in terms of sort of, you know, legitimization and regulation and do as badly as it has.

So I think we're sitting here today scratching our head and wondering what the utility of crypto is.

I mean, maybe that just makes it the very best time to buy it because everyone hates it.

But, you know, I think you asked me the question last time, gold or crypto, and I think, or I hope I said gold.

And I would still say the same today.

No, I think that's right.

I would recommend if people are going to the beach and they want a really inspiring book.

I don't normally read non-fiction and I've just read a book called The Wide, Wide Sea, which came out a couple of years ago and is an account of Captain Cook's last circumnavigation of the world.

And it's a really extraordinary story, both how meticulously it's been put together from historical record of the time, but actually the thing that I found overwhelming at times was that it is only 250 years ago.

And it's extraordinary to remind ourselves at this pace of acceleration in progress all the time, how young modernity is, that only 250 years ago, Cook was meeting people that had never encountered outsiders before and was exploring parts of the world that weren't charted.

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