S’pore Retirees Chasing Gold Lose $3,300 Yearly | 🦖EP1546
Gold at record highs feels like a sanctuary — until you price in what it costs you to hold it. A 20% gold allocation in a S$300,000 SRS portfolio silently displaces S$60,000 of productive capital, creating a S$3,300 annual income vacuum while CNMC Goldmine trades at 118.8% above its InvestingPro Fair Value on a 0.53% yield. That is not a hedge. That is a vanity purchase dressed as risk management.
At a 1.37% T-Bill rate and a 3.2% forensic floor, any asset below the 4.7% hurdle is paying you less than the minimum required to justify the risk taken. Gold pays zero. CNMC pays 0.53%. Even OCBC has slipped to 3.57% — below the hurdle. When your "safe" alternatives are structurally underpaying and MAS has formally revised core inflation upward, concentration in non-yielding assets is not caution. It is capital erosion on a timer.
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