During the past 6-7 years, gold has lost its importance as an investment asset, partially because investing in other assets were much more profitable. For example, during 2011-19, gold gave a return of -20%, while DOW JONES gave a return of +136%. Among the major assets, gold was the only one which gave a negative return. All the others (real estate, treasury bonds, commodities.etc) gave positive returns to their users. And the future outlook also looks discouraging for gold.
Well, I have never really like Gold that much, the hype is just too much and there is nothing that much to really gain from gold because of its very low volatility, no matter how long you keep gold, the value one later convert it to in future is not that encouraging,
I see gold as an asset that is just good for one t use in tying money down against spending, or savings. i.e. if I have a money I don’t want to spend, it would be easier for me to convert it to gold and keep till I am in need of it turn to at any time, I could then be lucky that the value would have appreciated a little bit by the time I need it or t could even depreciate.
For now, I would rather use whatever money I have for a volatility market in cryptocurrency which has better return rate, and I think government should be looking towards this area too.