Few investment options divide the financial advisory community like gold. Some view bullion as a standard minor allocation that’s useful for providing non-correlated portfolio ballast while others are turned off by its inability to either generate income or throw off dividends. Regardless of the perspective, however, there’s no ignoring gold’s performance over the past few years, including a nearly 64% gain in 2025 that followed a climb of more than 26% the year before. In fact, bullion has outperformed the S&P 500 Index in three of the past four years. The strong run-up for the asset, which hasn’t seen a ... (full story)