Ray Dalio: Everyone Should Own Gold - Gold is an excellent diversification tool - Gold performs well when other stocks underperform - Optimal gold allocation: 15% For background reference, Goldman Sachs estimates: - 0.18% of privately held financial assets in the US are in gold - Every 0.01% increase in gold holdings = a 1.4% increase in the price of gold - That's 140 times the initial investment. The reasons to own gold are growing, yet most Western investors and institutions haven't even gotten on board yet. This gold bull market is far from over.