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Investing in precious metals as a tool of financial security for retirement
REMIÁŠ, Ondřej
The thesis deals with possibility of investing in precious metals (with a great focus on gold) as a way to have financial savings for retirement and comparing it with more widely used saving tools in the Czech Republic that are used for such purposes - sup-plementary pension insurance, life savings and more. The first part of this work looks at Czech pension system before and after its reforms and pointing out its unsustainability for the future. It then proceeds to look in history of investing in gold and analyze in great depth its benefits and disadvantages. The practical part was divided into financial analysis based on the example of the statistically average Czech citizen and a question-naire, which was attended by 288 respondents, mainly students or university graduates. Although the results of the work showed the suitability of gold and other precious met-als in the issue of financial security for retirement, we shouldn't also forger their disad-vantages when choosing them for this purpose. When creating a financial portfolio, one should think about involving a whole range of financial products - whether stock, bonds or its supplementation in the form of advantageous supplementary pension savings. Pre-cious metals undoubtedly have a place there, but they should be used primarily for their specific investment characteristics and advantages: as a hedge against inflation and mar-ket fluctuations of non-correlated financial instruments.
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Precious metals as the monetary phenomenon in the history
Kašpar, Jan ; Revenda, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Šíma, Ondřej (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on the history of the precious metals in monetary economics. Firstly, a function of the precious metals in monetary standard is introduced together with related prerequisities for an economic development. The thesis deals merely with monetary standards connected mainly with gold and silver. In the next part, a historical period between years 1944 -- 1976 concerning monetary standards is depicted and also this period is assessed from the economic point of view. The final part of the thesis analyses contemporary precious metal market. The author starts with a basic description of the precious metal market and also with its current tendencies and subsequently proceeds to a practical use of the analysis in creating appropriate investment strategy.
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commodity futures on precious metals
Schwartz, Peter ; Málek, Jiří (advisor) ; Paholok, Igor (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to clarify the importance of diversifying investment portfolios with the help of precious metals at the present time and to analyze the fluctuation of precious metals market in terms of demand, supply and price developments. The core of the thesis focuses on analysis of the market of precious metals from 1998 to 2011 The used work method is comparison of precious metals between themselves and the world stock indices, the method of analysis in separate calculations of indicators, the method of deduction from the results of calculations.
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