You can diversify your investing portfolio by including precious metals, especially silver, by adding a physical asset to a mix of bonds, equities, and mutual funds. In the past, precious metals served as an inflation hedge and had little association to conventional assets. When the US dollar lost more than half of its value between 1971 and 1981, silver prices increased by nearly five times, reaching an all-time high in 1980.

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