TOO LATE TO JUMP ON THE GOLDWAGON? - By Egon von Greyerz

``The answer to the above question is a categorical NO. Virtually no major investor group has participated in gold's spectacular rise. In spite of a seven fold increase in the gold price, only circa 1% of world financial assets are invested in gold. Whenever I talk to major institutional investors, not only do they not own gold, but they don't understand gold either. I was speaking at a conference for Family Offices recently where there were circa 250 family office managers present representing substantial funds. Not only did no one own gold, but they had no understanding of gold's role as an investment class or the fact that measured in real money, i.e. in gold, their investments were declining precipitously.''