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How will you manage a black swan event?

A Black swan event is a rare, hard to predict, low probability event-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory A massive earth quake in Delhi, a major war between India and one of the neighbors, a terrorist nuclear attack in Delhi/Mumbai, a sudden significant contraction of the Indian/world economy, and a major war between any two of the top five economies in the world, are a few examples of the black swan events. These black swan events are capable of not only killing us but also destroy…

Hedging Against Equity portfolio

Recently observed that GOLD has started going up . Gold Buying indicates that investors are gauging that the current equity markets are overvalued and so they Buy gold to hedge their equity portfolio or purely for investment purpose. Also this year Gold has been allready staging a bull rally . Last time it stopped at 1272-1276 $ . Currently at 1252 $ .