Gold a better hedge than Bitcoin 28 Apr, 2021 02:00 AM 5 minutes to read In volatile & risky times, some investments offer better safety. Tony Coleman, managing director and founder of New Zealand Gold Merchants Ltd, offers his opinion on the best way to balance an investment portfolio. One of the most important words in anyone's financial vocabulary is: diversification, otherwise known as protecting oneself from the cold winds that can blow through the financial markets. New Zealand, at the moment, is heavily exposed to what seem to be two burst-able bubbles – the share market and the property market, both of which most experts agree are massively overpriced, even though recent government measures to cool the property market have been applied.