DOES GOLD INVESTMENT OFFER PROTECTION AGAINST STOCK MARKET LOSSES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE COUNTRIES

Mohd Fahmi Ghazali (), Hooi Hooi Lean () and Zakaria Bahari ()
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Mohd Fahmi Ghazali: Labuan Faculty of International Finance, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 87000 Federal Territory of Labuan, Malaysia
Zakaria Bahari: #x2021;Centre for Islamic Development Management (ISDEV), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2020, vol. 65, issue 02, 275-301

Abstract: This study aims to analyze the characteristics of gold as a diversifier, a hedge or a safe haven against the stock market collapse in five countries. We propose the standard and quantile techniques in the volatility models, with the time-varying conditional variance of the regression residuals based on the TGARCH specifications. Gold exhibits considerable evidence of the strong hedge in India and the US and diversified role in China. With regards to its role as a safe haven, gold retains its status as a key investment particularly in a country where gold has a preeminent cultural role, i.e., India, as well as in the US and the UK. On the contrary, gold only plays a minor role in emerging markets like in Malaysia. Therefore, investors in India and the US can use gold to protect against losses in the stock market at all times, whereas in the UK, gold is only viewed as a profitable asset to own during the stock market collapse. Contrariwise, Chinese investors should hold a well-diversified portfolio to earn sustainable returns and offer protection against the stock market collapse. We conclude that the recent worldwide financial crises have increased the investment demand for gold over the last 17 years at least.

Keywords: Gold; diversifier; hedge; safe haven; financial turmoil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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