I've read that despite being able to redeem shares for actual physical gold, that due to being a closed-ended fund that it doesn't track the price of gold nearly as closely as GLD.  Not sure which way to go. There's always buying physical coins.  Since this is for shorter term investment, could it b...

I searched the forum for this fund and nothing came up.  I'm thinking I'm going to implement a short term house fund in permanent portfolio form using funds for each 25% allocation.  GLD is the obvious for gold, but my accountant also told me about a fund, PHYS.  Anyone have any thoughts on or exper...

A while back I decided to open a second brokerage account for institutional diversification.  I already had one with Fidelity and started a second with T-Rowe Price.  I needed to add money to stocks so decided to buy a new fund through them.  The new Permanent Portfolio book wasn't out yet and I mig...

Just as a hypothetical - when you sell gold bullion to a dealer, do they take your information and issue a 1099 of the sale?  Never had to do this so just curious.

Hm - a lot to think about.  Thanks everyone for all the input.  I had already made up my mind to avoid PERM before revisiting this thread due the lack of volume and the risk that it could close and find it liquidating.  That got re-affirmed here so I feel confident about that. I was going to go with...

Thanks KevinW.  My fear of PERM is not so much about TSHF in terms of the economy as much as it is about it being a new fund and something going very wrong with it's management and the fund collapsing.  PRPFX has a long track record that PERM does not.  That said, I certainly like the asset allocati...

I personally would just go with a 4 x 25% split with the following ETF's: 25% VTI (total US stock market) 25% TLT (20+ yr US treasuries) 25% SHY (1-3 yr US treasuries) 25% GLD (gold etf) See how PERM performs and at least give it time to pick up some liquidity.  If it more or less tracks the PP ove...

Question for you about PERM.  Everywhere I read, people claim it basically mimmics the HBPP with the 25% allocation to the four assets - but on morningstar it says the asset allocation is quite different:  Cash 0.34% US Stock 18.82% Non US Stock 16.04% Bond 47.98% Other 16.81% Is that because it's h...

Thanks Pointed Stick!  It looks like this fund is heavily in bonds though and not much of anything else?

I'm in the same predicament.  I have a little over 16k sitting in a 9 month risk free CD.  It was good when I bought in 2007 (5%), but I didn't know how long I wanted to have it tied up so I got the risk free so I can pull out any time without penalty.  The rate re-adjusted after 9 months and is now...