After two years of rapid price increases, the conflict in Iran has seen gold prices fall notably. With the metal struggling, we look at what drives its performance, and how SJP views it as an asset class. In Eastern Bulgaria, there is an ancient burial site known as the Varna Necropolis that dates to the fifth millennium BCE. Only discovered in the 1970s, it soon became clear that this site was home to what many consider to be the oldest examples of gold treasure and jewellery ever discovered. In the intervening millennia, countless wars have been fought, empires forged and kingdoms lost in the pursuit of the ... (full story)