Bitcoin and Gold: A New Era of Complementary Safe-Haven Assets, Says WisdomTree Analyst
2025-11-14 23:25
For decades, gold has anchored global portfolios as the quintessential safe-haven asset. But in the past ten years, bitcoin has rapidly emerged as its digital counterpart — and, in many cases, its outperformer. New research from Dovile Silenskyte, Director of Digital Assets Research at WisdomTree, suggests that investors may no longer need to choose between the two. Instead, the data increasingly supports a combined approach, where gold provides stability and bitcoin offers asymmetric upside. Over the past decade, #bitcoin has outperformed #gold on risk-adjusted returns, despite higher volatility. With declining correlations and growing institutional adoption, the case for pairing both assets in modern portfolios is getting stronger. In her latest blog,… pic.twitter.com/IFC4Evlv9q — WisdomTree in Europe (@WisdomTreeEU) November 13, 2025 Gold vs. Bitcoin: A Changing Store-of-Value Hierarchy Gold’s safe-haven characteristics remain structurally intact. Its scarcity, established role in global markets and historical performance during periods of stress have kept it...
