New Delhi, Feb. 26 -- Legendary investor Ray Dalio has once again enunciated the important of Gold in portfolios. A video clip shared on social media platform X by user Lukas Ekwueme shows Dalio making a forceful case for why every investor-regardless of geography or asset mix-should own gold.

Dalio's comments arrive at a time when investors are grappling with elevated geopolitical risks, rising debt levels, aggressive monetary interventions, and growing uncertainty about the long-term stability of currencies. In such an environment, Dalio argues that investors often focus on the wrong thing: the daily spot price of gold, rather than its strategic purpose.

As per Dalio, gold plays a fundamentally different role compared with equities or...