Investing in Gold and Value for Downside Protection

April 01, 2013

Buy ($175)

Topics covered: Value Investing, Precious Metals, Longer-Term Investing, Long-Term Value Conservation, Long-Term Investing, Large-Cap Investing, Investment Strategies, Investing in Gold, High-Quality Companies, Global Investing

Companies covered: Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC), Altria Group (NYSE:MO), Total SA (ADR) (NYSE:TOT), Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. (NYSE:HE), U.S. Global Investors, Inc. (NASDAQ:GROW), Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), Pepsico, Inc. (NASDAQ:PEP), Newmont Corporation (NYSE:NEM), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Mercury General Corporation (NYSE:MCY), Leucadia National Corporation (NYSE:LUK), Coca-Cola Company (The) (NYSE:KO), Kinross Gold Corporation (NYSE:KGC), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C), Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:GOLD), Goldcorp Inc. (NYSE:GG), Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (NYSE:AEM), CA Inc. (NASDAQ:CA), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:QSII), International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM), H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE:HRB), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) (NYSE:GS), BMC Software Inc.