Is investing in gold a good option rather than shares or property?

depends on the property most will always go up in value but seen it hit bottom too--gold is always stable

my mother bought some gold bricks from dubai 12 years ago and those bricks are worth a lot today. she make some Jewellery out of those and all you pay labor to make them.

if you are flying Dubai or some where in Malayasia dont delay it. Gold price goes up every year.

I remember reading that the countries which have stable highvalue currencies r the ones with tons of gold in their vaults.
I say leave the shares be. Go for property and gold.

Historically, no. The return on precious metals is volatile and the average return over the years is low.

Stocks return 10% on the average - there are good years, 2008 may be a bad year. But it averages out to 10%.

Property is difficult - you have to buy a location that improves in value. The mansions of the early 1900s were the inner city of the 1960s. Farmland requires a lot of money to hold on to. Apartment buildings require a lot of time, patience, and maintenance money.

Good luck.

yes.but you will not get intrem interst.

Not a optimum time now to invest in gold
i already divest some kg of my gold

most of the Indian are try to investing in food materials.
now a days food materials are very costly one.
share and gold are precious mater for the elite Indians.

Well it actually depends on the amount or and risk apetite.
Gold is a good option since its gonna be steady in any case with 10-20% return pa but needs no effort or research.
Incase of shares its volatile and needs a lot of experience or knack to hit the hit the market at the right time being risky. It will give you high return though. But if you gotta go for shares u can minimize the risk by finding one fund manager to do it for you. By that you are depending on his skills rather than your. But since the fund manager(individual or company) would be handling a lot of money other than yours, they research a lot before investing, hence minimizing your risk.
The last one is property which is another one of the safest
but needs huge investment. Since its one of your choices then you already have that kind of proportionate money. So there is no point in talking about that. But here the important thing is how you do that. Clean paerworks good location, market research for the property in neighbourhood, economic condition of the place , clean agent are a few of the necessary steps to be taken care of.

Gold is usually a reliable way to invest and there is always the possibility it's value may surge, I remember about 1980 the cost went through the roof and people were queueing in London to sell their gold Krugerrands.If you mean small investments then you could buy good quality jewelry, then you could make use of this while you have it and sell it when required.

I invest in gold and silver and have for the past 8 yrs. But I do it in coins. The reason is when I buy I pay cash and no other information is needed Nothing to track like in SS#. When I sell nothing to track like SS#
so no tax's on my return. You purchase stocks or bonds or property there is a paper trail, so you can be taxed. The gold I purchased several years back at $300.00 and ounce is now close to $900.00 Silver I was buying at $6.00 and $7.00 an ounce is now approx $16.00 an ounce. Some of my past gold I purchased at $300.00 I sold when it reached $750.00. I sold enough to cover the cost of all my old gold purchases, so that the gold I am holding now I have nothing invested in them. So everything is all profit.

invest in any raw materials

gold is a conservative option, it is guaranteed cash when you sell it and it will never be worthless. But at the same time it's value will never perform as well as that of the sharemarket at it's best.
Buy gold if you fear there is going to be a world war or some real catastrophe where the world's money markets will disintegrate into nothing, gold will still be a high value comodity after such a meltdown.
In this day and age i would consider crude oil to be a big investment security, at some point in the future it will be worth more than gold, when there is virtually none left.