The Outperformance of Gold – A Possible Explanation – Summer 2020

By August 21, the year to date price of gold had gone up a hefty 27%. While many other asset classes experienced difficult times, the gold price not only showed significant resistance against global concerns on political issues, trade disputes, an oil price crash, Brexit, the Covid-19 pandemic, social unrest in the U.S. and other countries and more, but was able to show a substantial positive outperformance over many other asset classes.