Historically, gold is either negatively correlated or has very low correlation to
traditional asset classes such as bonds and equities, and there are periods when these
asset classes either
outperform or underperform the others correspondingly.
In the five years and 10 years subsequent to 1998, the collection of diversifying Third Pillar
assets outperformed a
traditional 60/40 stock / bond portfolio by an annualized 8.98 % and 6.42 %, respectively.1