Sam Taube

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407 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 2d ago

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NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast · Are You Too Late for the Gold Rush? Plus: A Retirement Rule That Might Be Broken · 29 Jan 2026 podcast

Now, it's important to note that this is one of those news-driven price movements.

And don't get me wrong, Goldman Sachs has some very smart people trying to estimate what the year-end price of gold is going to be, but that doesn't mean that those estimates are perfectly reliable.

I mean, we're only a month into 2026, and a lot could happen in the next 11 months that could derail that $5,400 per ounce prediction.

So I don't think it's a good idea to take that prediction as a given and buy into it for the long term.

For everyday investors, precious metals aren't something that's going to make you a big short-term profit.

If you talk to different financial advisors, some are kind of skeptical of the idea of including precious metals in a portfolio at all.

But others will say that they should make up a small percentage of it, maybe 5% or 10% of it.

And they just serve as a diversifier and also as kind of apocalypse insurance.

And we'll talk more about what I mean by that later.

So that's a long haul investment.

And I don't really think the entry point or the timing really matters much if you're talking about a time horizon of years or decades.

Again, for a typical long-term investor, precious metals aren't a way to get rich.

They're just a small static component of your portfolio.

If you're investing for retirement or something like that, you're probably not going to try to take profits in the small portion of your portfolio that might be invested in precious metals.

But I will say this, after years where precious metals have outperformed the stock market, which includes last year, you'd probably want to rebalance your portfolio.

And what that means is that you sell off the pieces of your portfolio that have done better

than the rest and you buy a little bit of the pieces of your portfolio that have underperformed so that you bring everything back to its target mix.

So after 2025, if you have a gold allocation in your portfolio, you're probably going to be selling off some of your gold holdings just to bring that portion of your portfolio back down to the 5% or 10% allocation that you're targeting.

Now, if you're trading gold, again, I don't know that much about precious metals day trading.

We talked about Goldman's $5,400 per ounce price target for the end of 2026 earlier.

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